Tl*the contact owns a 2003 bmw 330xi. While the contact was driving 35 MPH the passenger side front air bag suddenly deployed without warning. The vehicle has not been diagnosed by the dealership and there were no prior warnings. The current and failure mileages were 58000.
2003 BMW 330XI airbags complaints
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Tl*the contact owns a 2003 bmw 330xi. While driving 25 MPH, the contact drove over a pothole in the road, which caused the lower portion of the passenger side air bag to deploy. A police report was filed. The top portion of the passenger side air bag had no air in it; therefore, it could not deploy properly. The vehicle had to be towed to a bmw shop and the mechanic stated that the entire passenger side air bag needed to be replaced. The contact believes that a pothole should not have caused the air bag to deploy. He was very disappointed to discover after the deployment that half of the passenger side air bag was not working properly. He believes that the manufacturer should be responsible for the repairs, but they are refusing responsibility. The current and failure mileages were 43,000.
We bought a bmw 330xi in august 2003. In april and july 2007, we had the airbag sign come up on the dashboard. We got it repaired the first time we had it and it worked well for a while - no sign. Then the sign came on again in june. We gave it for repair again and the dealership again repaired it and told us that the problem had been solved. Our car went out of warranty in august 2007. We have that sign coming up again since september 2007. We gave for repairs to a non-dealer facility (about summer 2008) and the it could not be resolved. The repair facility told us that the airbag sensors may be going bad repeatedly and hence the sign comes on. We believe that these sensors going bad repeatedly when perhaps there is nothing wrong with the airbag is indicative of faulty workmanship.
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