The issue affects 3 Series cars built between December 2004 and July 2011, meaning E46 (below) and E90 (top) models. The risk is not powertrain-specific, so cars running with petrol and diesel engines of varying capacities are all included.A BMW spokesman told Autocar that the brand has notified the Driving & Vehicle Standards Agency of its intention to recall and that it “will begin the recall process immediately'.“BMW has chosen to expand on its existing battery connector recall by also replacing the blower-regulator wiring harness on affected 3 Series models,” the spokesman said. “This involves replacing two wiring connections on the cars already affected and recalling an additional 88,000 cars in the UK.”. BMW’s latest UK recall comes in the year after it recalled 670,000 cars in the US for the same issue. Peter Cavellini wrote:@max1e6, This propaganda deriding a Car makers product is largely unfounded and generally put out there by People who just don’t like the product and they also have never owned one,I'm a former owner, and never will be again. My 3-Series spent more time in the garage than all of my previous cars put togehter.
The BMW service manager is now on my Facebook friends because I seen him so often!Sadly, the horror stories are true. When under warranty they quietly fix some issues to get it bumped out of warranty and then leave you with a car they know is a ticking timebomb.Worse for UK customers is that many of these issues are known, and have already been addressed in the USA. For UK customers they know they don't have to fear class action law suits or lemon laws. They're living on their reputation as a quality German brand, but that quality is a myth.BMWs are great when they're working, they really are, but some are have design faults that will cost the owners thousands to fix, and in some cases that fix is only ever temporary. Clearly BMW dropped the ball on this issue and the battery connector problem with poor engineering and QC but their biggest mistake was failing to grasp the nettle and issue a worldwide recall immediately both problems came to light - that is a PR disaster on its own.I've owned numerous BMWs & Alpinas mainly e46 and e90/92 and never had a major problem, although all of these would have been within the range that coukd have been affected by these problems.
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