The contact owns a 2008 BMW 328I. While driving 50 mph, the air bag warning light illuminated. The contact thought that it was illuminated because she placed groceries in the passenger seat. When the groceries were removed, the light remained illuminated. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 65,000.

- Bronx, NY, USA

Passenger air bag restraint system malfunction. Which seem to happening to a lot BMW cars.its safety issue and BMW won't cover it under they recall or warranty

- Santa Ana, CA, USA

Passenger side airbag light came when I started the car, then it shows like passenger airbag is off. For the past 2 weeks the light was coming intermittently, but now it is always on when I start the car and it shows passenger airbag is off. I searched online about this issue and went to mechanic. They gave me error code "93C3" which is passenger seat airbag sensor is not working in the seat and it will cost around 1300$ to fix this issue. BMW had a recall about this issue but it doesn't cover 2008 models. I have a sport seat, and when I checked online, I saw in the forums that lots of people are having the same problem. I believe this is a manufacturing problem and BMW should recall effected cars. Because it is very important safety issue...

- Los Angeles, CA, USA

The contact owns a 2008 BMW 318I. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the air bag warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 55,000.

- San Monica, CA, USA

On the afternoon of November 10th, while driving, a red light with a passenger restraint system malfunction message lit up on the dashboard. I brought the car into the dealer the next day and they said they had to order the part. They were unable to turn the light off, which affected my ability to retrieve time and temperature on the dashboard reader. They had to order the part, which was replaced on November 26th. The part is called sop battery safety terminal (battery cable plus pole). I was told that the wires tested as "broken intermittently." I was told that when this battery cable works correctly it will shut off the gas pump so that there was no danger of fire. I was concerned about driving the car even when the driver side seemed to be all right, because if gas leaked the whole car would be on fire, not just the passenger side. Since there was a recall of the airbag system, I thought this might be also related. The dealer said he had seen this before on other cars but he could not say how many. I am grateful that this could be fixed before any accident occurred.

- Schaumburg, IL, USA

Hi, I am quite frustrated with BMW. They have experienced widespread issues with their passenger restraint systems have multiple recalls out, however my car at this time is not part of it but my passenger airbags are faulty. BMW wants to charge me $150 diagnosis instead of ensuring the safety of my passengers. I'm writing you as this is very scary to me that BMW is willing to risk teh safety of the my passengers and not take care of their customers.

- Scottsdale, AZ, USA

The car's airbag failure warning light started going off whenever someone sits in the passenger seat, indicating that there is no airbag function in the car. Dealer has diagnosed the problem as a failed passenger seat sensor mat and indicates that this is a common problem. Cars up until the 2007 model year have been recalled to fix the problem, but BMW has yet to extend the recall to the 2008 model year. It appears that E91 models (my car) have the same sensor mat part as the recalled models, but BMW has not acknowledged that the problem is the actual part and not the "model year".

- Groton, MA, USA

Since purchasing this BMW in Feb 2012, I have had this car at the dealer 4 times ( and its only Aug. 2012) due to air bag & seatbelt lights on, both front seats have had seat belt pretensioners replaced, & various other airbag work, frayed wires under seat. The problem seems to be unstoppable. The current mileage is approx 104K miles. The car is currently on its way to the dealer today 08/23/2012 for its 4th trip -for the un-stoppable airbag & seat belt light that it seems to be doomed with.

- Linwood , NC, USA

Passenger side seat occupancy malfunction.faulty seat occupancy detector mat. Warning light stays on when a passenger sits in seat. Light says "passenger air bag off". that means it is set for a child.

- Potomac, MD, USA

I lost control of the vehicle over bad conditions on the roads and the car flipped over multiple times and yet none of the air bags deployed in the vehicle.

- Schaumburg, IL, USA

Through out the past month I have had my car towed three times with five occurrences of the car not cranking and the electrical system shutting down leaving me stranded. Over the past year the airbag light has come on at least once a month for less than 5-10 minutes at the time. The first instance it was towed BMW of mobile replaced the battery after several days of trouble shooting even though I had our local police department check the battery to be sure that was not the issue. They charged me over five hundred dollars for this battery. Two days after the battery was replaced I had it towed again to BMW of mobile because the car would not crank again and the lights etc. Would come on. They kept the car for over 5 days running test then stated that "nothing was wrong." I told them that I would not have had it towed if nothing was wrong. Two days later it would not crank again when my 3 year old daughter and I were at a late local highschool football game. This time they said that it was an electrical wire on the passenger side causing the problem causing something to melt near the fuse panel($1,200) to replace).

- Peterman, AL, USA