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BMW Recalls 7 Series Due to Air Bag Issue
BIMMERPOST NEWS BMW Recalls 7 Series Due to Air Bag Issue BMW AG is recalling its new flagship 7-series luxury limousine due to a potential air bag deployment issue, the company said on Thursday. Airbags in 26,000 cars produced before Dec. 11, 2015 may have a defective air bag control module, the company said, adding that there have been no known cases of faulty deployments. "It is purely a precautionary measure," a BMW spokesman said, adding that so far 47,000 vehicles of its new 7-series have been produced. The supplier of the affected air bag parts to BMW was Continental AG (CONG.DE). In a filing posted on the website of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday morning, BMW said the recall will affect 6,110 vehicles in the U.S. market. In the United States, affected vehicles are from the 2016 model year including 740Li, 750Li, and 750 Lxi. In Germany, 2,600 cars are impacted and in China 4,700 cars will be recalled, BMW said. In the United States, owners will receive letters in May about the recall. The fix, for which customers will not be charged, will take up to four hours at a dealership. via Reuters |
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Well that didn't take long
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04-15-2016, 11:40 AM | #3 |
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I bet the 7 series are still amazingly safe even without airbags.
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04-15-2016, 12:04 PM | #5 |
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What excuses? A recall is a recall. Nothing BMW could have really done unless they knew Continental AG was providing shoddy parts. Outside of tires, I've had poor experiences with their automotive safety systems. I had to replace two sets (four in total) of radar sensors for my ML because they kept failing even with a revision to the part.
With today's cars and with everything that has happened over the last year or two, doesn't matter what car, German, Japanese, American, I don't think anyone is surprised to see a recall happen. |
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The air bags have been recalled on a ton of cars recently, not just the 7. Got a letter 2 weeks ago for a recall on my 128.
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04-15-2016, 12:51 PM | #8 |
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This is just a module issue which is available for replacement.
The actual airbag crisis is a different story Its estimates the whole takata airbag issue will take 12 years to resolve
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Please educate yourself. see Takata airbags. They avoided the supplier with known issues and it looks like another supplier has chosen to recall their products. The only " excuse " here is "its life in the big city" |
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04-15-2016, 02:17 PM | #11 |
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Yup, just "Control Module" Not actual airbags Takata or another manufacturer.
Parts have just hit some port and dealer priority 1 vehicles. Customers(who already own) will be called in shortly for there fixes. Annoying but better to be safe than sorry.
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Bingo. And, for the record, dealerships have been holding back cars that are affected by this issue for weeks. And it's not a "massive" recall by any means, given it only affects early-build G11 / G12. Anything ordered after December 2015 is golden.
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At the end of the day, s--t happens. You can't blame BMW for something they have absolutely no control over. The only time you could be up in arms with BMW is if they don't handle the recall in a satisfactory way, everything else is up to Continental to fix. |
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Right. Recalls are a good thing, from one point of view... It shows they are proactive about known problems, and unfortunately, nothing is 100% perfect in manufacturing.
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Exactly ... It's unfortunate that the great unwashed likely still will blame BMW ... |
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Full post: http://www.7post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1110095
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But seriously.. Whats with these airbag companies??? And damn BMW for not fixing my airbag asap... I dont feel safe driving it and I cant even sell it!!!! |
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130 years of auto manufacturing, and now were worried about airbags.
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It all always reminds me of the SNL skit they did on airbags,
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-li...-airbag/n10202
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