BMW Recalls 150,000 Vehicles Cars In US

Today it was announced by the management of BMW that it plans to recall 150,000 cars in the United States. After a segment on ABC News on high-pressure fuel pump on his twin-turbo N54 inline 6-cylinder engine, BMW decided to issue a voluntary emissions and safety recall. The company said it had notified the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a voluntary recall of some 130,000 cars built between 2007 and 2010.


Withdrawal of BMW models are prompted by two serious problems that can lead to some catastrophic accidents on the roads. "BMW of North America has notified the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's intention to conduct a voluntary recall of certain model year 2007-2010 BMW is equipped with twin-turbo inline six-cylinder engines, all with BMW High Precision Injection direct fuel injection" the company said in a statement.BMW said that the symptoms are long crank the engine start times with the "Service Engine Soon" light comes on.

In another case, BMW recall almost 21,000 cars by 2008-X5 normally aspirated six-cylinder engines to replace any defective low-pressure fuel pump. The pumps will be replaced, "says BMW. Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2010. The problem that may follow the relevant BMWs include long crank times to start the engine. The recall includes about 20,800 my 2008 X5 Sports Activity units are equipped with a normally aspirated inline six-cylinder engines to replace the low pressure fuel pump.