Three problems related to air bag not deploy have been reported for the 2011 BMW X5. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
The passenger seat weight occupancy sensor intermittently works. I am concerned if it is not working properly, the airbag may not deploy properly. Also, the seat belt warning light chimes even though the seat is not occupied.
Me and my kids were driving our 2011 BMW X5, we went to a full stop on the freeway, a semi was driving too fast behind us, the semi was on its way to crushing me and my three daughters in the car. We tried to move out of its way and crashed in the car infront of us as there was no place to go. The one second decision was the toughest decision I had to take in my life, either the semi is going to kill us all I I can crash in the car front of us to avoid death, we were relying on the airbag to save our life, the airbag didn't deploy, accident occurred on July 17th. Thankfully the airbag did not deploy or we would've been all dead from the defective BMW airbag, yesterday (July 31st) we received a letter from the dmv that we need to contact BMW to replace the defective airbag. What if the airbag deployed that day? how much is a human life worth? we purchased a BMW to protect us during an accident and we feel cheated. We would've all lost our lives. The car has been towed and sitting in our deiveway. It's inoperable and the airbag hasn't deployed. We are scared to even go inside the car to grab our things because we don't want the airbag to deploy. Someone needs to do something about this. Immediately. My daughters are scared to ride inside a car, and I'm scared to drive again. There has been 24 reported deaths from takata, we could've been number 29.
I was recently in an accident. I rear ended someone and the air bag did not deploy until after the accident occurred. I have chest and rib pain. Even deployed the air bag was not fully inflated.