BMW 650i, Alpina B6
Registered from 2015 to 2016.
About this model
The BMW 6 Series is a range of grand tourers produced by BMW since 1976. It is the successor to the E9 Coupé and is currently in its fourth generation.
From the Wikipedia article BMW 6 Series, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Crash test
| Stability control | Standard |
| Forward collision warning | No |
| Lane departure warning | No |
Crash-tested by NHTSA, the American road safety agency.
Recalls
Filed by the manufacturer with a regulator. A recall is repaired free of charge, whoever owns the car now.
78% of 2015 cars have more recall campaigns than this one, and an ordinary one has 3. More of them means more to check the service record for, not a worse car.
24V527000
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, increasing the risk of injury or death.
The driver's front air bag will be replaced, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 6, 2024. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417.
Regulator investigations
Opened by NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation is a question the regulator asked about a possible defect, not a fault it found — most end without a recall.
Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture
Engineering analysis, opened September 2021, still open.
What the maker told its dealers
Service bulletins are the manufacturer's own repair guidance to dealers, filed with NHTSA. A bulletin is not a defect finding; the count rises with how many things a maker writes down, not only with how many go wrong.
BMW filed 231 bulletins about the 2016 650i, Alpina B6.
- Equipment: 63
- Electrical system: 56
- Engine: 15
- Equipment adaptive/mobility: 13
- Engine and engine cooling: 11
- Fuel system, gasoline: 10
- Power train: 9
- Seats: 6
- Service brakes, hydraulic: 5
- Suspension: 5
- Other: 38
- N63tu1 class action settlement svc campaign: oil consumption diagnosis/repair · February 2026
- The basic conditions for initializing the power windows are not met. · February 2024
- The electrical system of BMW vehicles has been subject to an ongoing development process over the last few years. This has led to increased demands being placed on the battery. This document covers… · February 2024
- Pressure control valve (pcv) extended ltd wty 15 years/150,000 miles · December 2023
- The Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) warning light comes on while driving. The following DSC fault codes for the wheel speed sensors are stored: 480712 and/or 480715 and/or 480718 and/or 48071B They… · July 2023
- After programming the head unit (HU-H2), activating the FSC (German word Freischaltcode) Enabling Codes repeatedly fails. · June 2023
- With the court's FINAL approval, BMW of North America, LLC (BMW NA) has entered into a nationwide settlement with the plaintiffs in the following class action: Isley, et al. v. Bayerische Motoren… · June 2023
- The 3G network in the US has been shut down. This means that only the 4G network will be available. In the 4G network, voice calls will be transferred via the Voice over LTE (VoLTE) function. For… · May 2023
223 more.
Grouped by NHTSA's top-level system; a bulletin filed under a sub-heading counts toward its system.