On April 2, AQSIQ announced that BMW and Brilliance BMW planned to recall part of imported and China made cars, which is totallyconcerned with more than 230 thousands cars.
BMW (China) says VANOS may loss of control when fixed screw loose or falling off when engine in operation. It is because of designdeficiency of fixed screw VANOS of N52K, N52T and N55 engines. In certain circumstance that engine may not able to initiation or causes mechanical problem. It has certain risk, which BMW decides to recall.
The recalled cars are divided into China made and imported 2 groups. Imported car includes part of 1 series, 3 series, 5 series, 6 series, 7 series, X1, X3, X5, X6 and Z4 which are made from June 10, 2009 to July 30, 2012, which totally concerns with 138,534 cars. China made modes include part of 3 series and 5 series made from Nov 7, 2009 to June 6, 2013, which totally concerns with 93,564 cars. The recalled modes almost include all modes BMW sold in China.
In fact, as early as year 2010, some driver’soverseers have faced similar problems. In year 2013, the some quality problem has appeared. As it known, from the beginning of this year to March, media has collected more than hundredsimilar complains.
Some media says that some BMW 4S shops have signed contact that they shall not tell outside after the engine problem fixed with drivers to keep secret to hide the problems from mass public.
BI Suwen, officer in charge of Public Relationship department tells media that “BMW has submittedsimilar question about screw crack issues to AQSIQ for recall plan before. But AQSIQ suggests not to compulsory recall after research.”
However, the snowball goes further. Before “3.15 Day” this year, when was March 14, BMW has submitted its
According to statistics, BMW has sold 67.4 cars in China in the first 2 months this year, which remain growth.
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