ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE
An audible chime that does not properly alert the driver to fasten their seat belt increases the risk of injury in a crash.
6 safety recall campaigns, 1 defect investigation, 16 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
An audible chime that does not properly alert the driver to fasten their seat belt increases the risk of injury in a crash.
An improperly welded seat frame may not properly restrain the occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
During a crash, a seat belt retractor that does not function as intended increases the risk of injury.
An improperly installed seat belt assembly may not restrain an occupant as expected, increasing the risk of injury.
If the driver relies on only the rearview camera image, the missing or reduced rearview image view can increase the risk of a crash or injury.
Increased electrical resistance can increase the risk of a fire.
Two 2021 BMW M340Is can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.