17V605000
AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION
Should the system fail, in the event of a crash, the front passenger air bag would be deactivated, increasing the risk of personal injury.
2006 BMW X3
1 safety recall campaign, 2 defect investigations, 178 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints178
Complaints citing a crash8
Complaints citing a fire20
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.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 66AIR BAGS
- 40SEATS
- 13ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 12AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
- 6ENGINE
- 4ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
- 4FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
- 4STRUCTURE:BODY
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2006 BMW X3s 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.