Air Bag Problems of BMW 323 - part 2

BMW 323 owners have reported 51 problems related to air bag (under the air bag category). The most recently reported issues are listed below.

36 Air Bag problem of the 1998 BMW 323

Failure Date: 12/10/2013

Control display that the electric circuit, license plate light, brake circuit, has failed. On my dashboard the following lights are airbag, check engine, brake pad wear, abs, and the asc+t lights are illuminated at all times. Nothing happened to my car, no wreck, no quick stops, I am an extremely cautious driver. All these things start to occur out of no where,.

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37 Air Bag problem of the 2000 BMW 323

Failure Date: 07/14/2009

On July 1, 2009 recall repairs were made at united BMW roswell, GA for a recalled airbag module. A week later my 2000 BMW 323i was parked and all of a sudden the front airbags deploy. The dealership was notified and a tow truck was sent to pickup and return the vehicle to the dealership. After a day of diagnostic work on the car the dealership states the car was involved in front end collision. BMW north America was notified after diagnostic test and is currently being "investigated". . . .

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38 Air Bag problem of the 2000 BMW 323

Failure Date: 03/01/2007

- the contact owns a 2000 BMW 3i. The air bag module failed. The manufacturer stated that recall# 02v223000 was repaired in July 2003. The dealer stated that this failure usually didn't occur after the vehicle has been repaired. The contact spoke to an air bag engineer ,who also stated that this type of failure should not occur if the vehicle was less than 10 years old. The contact was the owner at the time the vehicle was repaired and wasn't notified that the recall repair was done. The contact stated that the repairs were at her own expense. The current and failure mileage were 16,000.

39 Air Bag problem of the 2000 BMW 323

Failure Date: 09/19/2004

The vehicle was involved in a collision and none of the six air bags deployed.

40 Air Bag problem of the 1999 BMW 323

Failure Date: 02/07/2004

Will driving the vehicle, the airbag for the passenger side door and above came out. The vehicle was not involved in a motor vehicle accident. The vehicle was brought into the jmk dealer to replace the gasket in that door 2 weeks and 3 days from that day if blow out.

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41 Air Bag problem of the 2000 BMW 323

Failure Date: 08/23/2003

Consumer's vehicle was having the same problems as mentioned in recall 02v223000 concernint air bags. Dealer would not repair because VIN was not included.

42 Air Bag problem of the 1998 BMW 323

Failure Date: 07/08/2002

No summary listed for above vehicle.

43 Air Bag problem of the 2000 BMW 323

Failure Date: 10/18/2001

Consumer states while driving the vehicle hit a pothole, side and roof air bag deployed.

44 Air Bag problem of the 1999 BMW 323

Failure Date: 10/01/2001

While driving the consumer swerved to avoid hitting a truck and ran into a curb, as a result the air bag deployed (claim # 53-c838-338).

45 Air Bag problem of the 2000 BMW 323

Failure Date: 08/18/2001

Consumer states while driving, vehicle hit pothole and the side and roof air bag deployed (claim# 30-v379-645).

46 Air Bag problem of the 2000 BMW 323

Failure Date: 06/11/2001

While driving, consumer hit a pothole and the air bags deployed (claim # 23-1374-012).

47 Air Bag problem of the 2000 BMW 323

Failure Date: 12/02/2000

I just became aware of the passenger airbag recall. I was sitting in the passenger front seat as we were going 30 mph hit the curb when the airbag came out ended up rupturing shooting debris out onto my face resulting me to lose my left eye.

48 Air Bag problem of the 1999 BMW 323

Failure Date: 10/06/2000

Consumer states the side door air bags deployed with no impact (claim # 35-w527-881).

49 Air Bag problem of the 1998 BMW 323

Failure Date: 06/08/1999

A driver, on a 5 lane st, in a center turn lane, driving the same direction as myself struck my car on it's left-side, causing my car to spin. Attempting to avoid further injury in early am traffic, I was able to slowly veer to the far right at a reduced speed of 3 mph, and could not stop enough to prevent collision with a stationary brick wall. I remember making impact and the airbag popping out of the steering column like a small pillow, then suddenly erupting with painful magnificent force throwing by head and chest back, then my falling to the right-side arm-rest. I managed to unbuckle my seatbelt, and murmur as best I could to my two young daughters in the car with me, to get my cell phone, get out of the car, and call their father. Fortunately, a witness called 911 and police and a life-flight helicopter arrived to extract me from the totaled car and fly me unconscious to a local trauma hospital. I was assessed and it was found every bone in my face was broken, the fumes of the airbag caused my lung to collapse, me to �code�, requiring shock epinephrine and electrical shocking to revive my breathing. I required total facial reconstructive surgery with titanium plates placed over broken bones in my face, and dental pins in 4 places of my broken upper and lower jawbones. My teeth were chipped/broken and later needed extensive veneers and dental repairs. I suffered memory loss which has ceased m6 career as a registered nurse. We took BMW, the driver, and taka to court 6 years later, but takata denied any responsibility for my $2. 7 million in expenses. The driver was solely found at fault. I just rec'd a card about takata's guilt. My attorney has now retired. I am attempting to find related documents and records for my substantial costly injuries many years since this occurred. This airbag's mal-deployment has immensely altered my life beyond words here.

50 Air Bag problem of the 1998 BMW 323

Failure Date: 06/08/1999

Report#2:06/08/1999, my left front driver's door was struck by another driver,causing my car to spin. I regained my correct driving path. To avoid additional collisions, I departed the road to the right non-curbed wet grassy roadside. To avoid striking a wood telephone or electrical pole, I turned sharply right. I firmly braked & my car slid on wet grass, coming to a complete stop, making frontal low impact with a brick roadside wall. My car fortunately had a automatic front seat-belting system for my closed-top convertble. My 2 daughter passengers & I were all seat-belted. My 10 yrs old, in the right front passenger's seat & my 4 yr old was in the rear left passenger seat, directly behind me. We were all startled by the event. I could see my daughter to my right side was unharmed. Knowing we would all need to soon exit the car & I would need to assist my youngest, I unbuckled my seatbelt. I next turned myself to the right, to check on my youngest daughter, behind me. I saw she was ok. I next heard a loud pop in front of me, so I turned forward to see a small rectangular plastic pillow filling with air. I realized it must be the airbag. Next I felt a extreme painful, forceful blow against my face & upper chest. The airbag over-aggressively deployed late. The over-aggressive force of the airbag caused me to suffer a traumatic brain injury, with a current life-threatening brain lesion. My 2 mandibles jaws were ea. Broken in 4 places, requiring 8 perm. Dental pins. Every bone in my face was broken, requiring titanium plate placement over the broken bones. My skull-top had to be cut open to relieve the increased intracranial pressure. I technically died due to my lungs collapsing and eart-stopped during the life-flight helicopter transport, which the emts revived me for my nearly one month hospital recovery & rehabilitation. My airbag should have been recalled.

51 Air Bag problem of the 1999 BMW 323

Consumer states the drivers door and roof air bags deployed, the only damage to the vehicle was two blown out tires and rims, there was no impact to the body of the vehicle (claim # 11-3413-500).



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