Re: BMW to recall 3422 cars in India for fixing Battery Fault Quote:
Originally Posted by Sahil 3422 units of the 5 and 6 is a large % of total number of these two cars on Indian roads.
Giving the date range of 2007 to 2010, I am guessing this would mainly be almost every E60 sold in India. I guess both of my cars would be a part of the recall as one is end 2007 mfd and other 2009.
The BMW website has nothing about this recall yet. How does one find out if their car needs to be sent in? Will the entire battery be replaced or just the cable?
Perhaps Maverick can shed some light on this? |
@ Sahil, Yes the campaign is applicable on both your cars. An mailer will be sent shortly to all the affected customers.
We have not faced this concern in any of the 5er or 6er which are on road from 2005. To check the correctness of the vehicle, a battery terminal which is below the luggage trim needs to be checked for tightness, which may have come loose due to vibrations, temperature variations etc. Primary symptoms would be sporadic electrical failures and warnings in the car and in extremely rare cases the underfloor panel may catch fire. Quote:
Originally Posted by moralfibre As per this article from TOI: Link.
Now is the right time to discuss the fire in this BMW - Thread link.
BMW has silently put in a line saying: "There has not been any accidents or injury to persons due to this fault." |
@ Moralfibre: The Bangalore incident was an F10, I doubt that case has anything to do with this recall. |