Interesting recall notice
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Interesting recall notice
This week I got a notification of a recall campaign on my 2011 BMW 335d, for the driver's side airbag. Digging into it, a curious story emerged that I thought some of you folks might appreciate.
We all remember the 2013 Takata airbag issue. Like most manufacturers, BMW identified cars that had been built with the faulty airbags and replaced them under a recall campaign, which in their case was largely completed (there are always stragglers) in 2016. Case closed, right?
Apparently some dealers have been occasionally reporting cars coming in with defective airbags who were not subject to the recall. After digging into it, BMW issued a new recall, for 394,000 cars, >99% of which have nothing wrong with them. This new recall actually covers cars that were built with non-defective airbags, where the owner may have subsequently swapped in a steering wheel that DOES have a defective airbag.
Mine still has the factory wheel, rather than the impacted sport or m-sport wheel, so I'm not even going to bother to take it in for inspection. But it is an interesting circuitous route that has brought us here, and I think it's cool that they're taking this opportunity to dot I's and cross T's, even if it means most news stories about it read like "OMG there are STILL 394,000 defective cars from 10 years ago that BMW is just recalling now". Motor1 actually has a decent writeup that explains it properly.
We all remember the 2013 Takata airbag issue. Like most manufacturers, BMW identified cars that had been built with the faulty airbags and replaced them under a recall campaign, which in their case was largely completed (there are always stragglers) in 2016. Case closed, right?
Apparently some dealers have been occasionally reporting cars coming in with defective airbags who were not subject to the recall. After digging into it, BMW issued a new recall, for 394,000 cars, >99% of which have nothing wrong with them. This new recall actually covers cars that were built with non-defective airbags, where the owner may have subsequently swapped in a steering wheel that DOES have a defective airbag.
Mine still has the factory wheel, rather than the impacted sport or m-sport wheel, so I'm not even going to bother to take it in for inspection. But it is an interesting circuitous route that has brought us here, and I think it's cool that they're taking this opportunity to dot I's and cross T's, even if it means most news stories about it read like "OMG there are STILL 394,000 defective cars from 10 years ago that BMW is just recalling now". Motor1 actually has a decent writeup that explains it properly.
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I have and it was for faulty fuel pump impellers on my 2019 Civic. I dropped the car off and took Uber home and that’s about a 15 minute trip. I was home for about 5 minutes and got a call that the job was completed. Impressive but I know some current and former dealer service technicians. They are very efficient when it comes to jobs they have to do frequently.
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Originally Posted by geko29
I think it's cool that they're taking this opportunity to dot I's and cross T's
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They Hyundai and Kia engine recalls are alarming https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/...0on%20or%20off.
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