BMW has initiated a major recall marketing campaign, encompassing practically all its diesel mannequin sequence from 2021 and 2022, as a result of a hearth hazard, as reported by the automotive publication Auto Motor und Sport. The recall impacts practically 800,000 automobiles worldwide. The basis of the issue lies within the potential for glycol coolant to flee from faulty exhaust fuel recirculation (EGR) coolers. This leakage, when mixed with soot accumulation and excessive temperatures, can result in the glycol combination catching hearth, posing a extreme threat of car combustion in excessive instances.

This subject first gained consideration in December 2020, when Auto Motor und Sport revealed a then-unknown recall of 500,499 automobiles throughout practically all BMW sequence. This recall consists of diesel fashions from the one to seven sequence, in addition to the X1, X3, X4, and X5, indicating a widespread subject throughout the model’s lineup. The engine affected are N47, N57 and B47 diesels.

BMW has acknowledged that prior corrective actions had been insufficient, resulting in continued cases of EGR cooler leaks and the uncommon however harmful consequence of car fires. A BMW spokesman informed Auto Motor und Sport the measures carried out within the meantime weren’t ample. An optimized cooler unit has solely been used since 2022, which, in line with AMS, even comes from a distinct provider than the problematic elements of the previous.  This ongoing subject has prompted elevated scrutiny from the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA), which now workouts extra lively oversight over the recall course of, extending its focus to incorporate non-safety-related merchandise. Homeowners of the affected automobiles are being straight contacted by BMW for workshop visits to handle the hearth threat.

There is no such thing as a further info for the North American market, however in 2021, BMW USA recalled 50,404 of the next automobiles that come geared up with an Exhaust Gasoline Recirculation (EGR) module with an built-in cooler:

• Mannequin 12 months 2013-2018 328d, 328d xDrive,
• Mannequin 12 months 2014-2018 328d Sports activities Wagon, 328d xDrive Sports activities Wagon,
• Mannequin 12 months 2014-2016 535d, 535d xDrive,
• Mannequin 12 months 2015 740Ld xDrive,
• Mannequin 12 months 2015-2017 X3 xDrive28d SAV, and
• Mannequin year2014-2017 X5 xDrive35d SAV diesel.

[Source: Motor Press Stuttgart via BimmerToday]