Seats Related Problems of the 2012 BMW X5

Table 1 shows one common seats related problems of the 2012 BMW X5.

Table 1. Seats related problems of BMW X5

Problem Category	Number of Problems
Seats problems	3

Seats problem #1

I was using the seat heating on a very cold day recently and 10 minutes into the drive we noticed a weird smell, but couldn’t locate the source. As the smell got worse and worse over time, we stopped the car, turned of the interior lights and saw that smoke had accumulated in the cabin, suddenly we found that the seat heater had burned a hole through the leather seat on the rear passenger side, where my girlfriends father sat .

Seats problem #2

Front passenger side occupancy seat sensor is bad and computer detected an air bag malfunction. Timing chain broke without warning.

Seats problem #3

Notification for faulty front passenger seat occupancy sensor.

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