Posted on 05/17/2023 12:19:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
If you drive an older BMW from the early to mid 2000s, you need to stop driving it immediately. At least until you check its recall status. Consumer Reports says that yet another Takata airbag recall is impacting car owners, specifically BMW owners with cars made between 2000 and 2006 this time around. If you don’t get it fixed, it could have life changing or deadly results.
BMW says that the current recall affects 90,000 models made from 2000 to 2006. Everything, from every version of the 3 and 5 Series to the X5, is affected. The issue surrounds defective Takata airbags installed in the steering wheel. Like other instances, if the vehicle is involved in an accident, the airbag inflator could possibly rupture and cause shrapnel to hit passengers, severely injuring or killing them.
Disturbingly, many owners still haven taken their vehicle in for the free recall repair. BMW has had this recall open since 2016 and estimates that many of the 90,000 affected vehicles belong to owners who still haven’t taken their vehicles in. And BMW is making it convenient, so there’s really no reason not to do it. Parts for the repair are available and plentiful, it only takes about an hour to do, and owners can schedule to have the work done at the dealer or at their home. BMW will even pick up and drop off the vehicle at no cost to the customer.
So if you own one of the affected vehicles, please check your VIN and get any necessary repairs done.
The Takata airbag recall is the largest in U.S. history. The NHTSA says that 67 million vehicles have been impacted from 34 brands. And with 24 deaths and 400 injuries due to the airbags, there should be no reason more victims are added to the list with a preventable measure widely and readily available.
BMW = Bowel Movement on Wheels…
Bring Much Wampum........................
Spoken like someone that’s never owned one.
LOL!...you wish!
“affects 90,000 models made from 2000 to 2006”
That couldn’t have been written in a more confusing way if they were trying........and that’s coming from a high school grad with a C average. 😏
Proofreading really is a lost art.
Mrs. V_Twins is a 2015.......we’re still good.....woo-hoo!
Best damn car I’VE ever owned.......and I’ve owned my share.......import AND domestic.
Ditto.
I plan to have that car until I die, and I’ll spend whatever it takes to keep it in primo condition.
Bowel movement on wheels? No, the bowel movement is your post.
—”Best damn car “
Some are and some are not.
A friend had the hots for a new BMW, but the dealer only had automatics, against his better judgment he purchased an automatic. He loved it!
A few years later he calls and says that a tappet is making noise and he has set the clearance a few times and it comes back? So he brings it over.
A neighbor that owns a few BMWs stops over, and with a glance he says tappets and automatic.
It seems that the engine was designed to idle at ~1100 rpm but at that speed with the auto, both feet would be needed to prevent crawling, so the idle speed was lowered. The US market demanded automatics, so they stuck one in there.
A bad idea.
At the lower speed, oil does NOT make it to the top of the engine and things wear out up there.
He still loved it with the ticking and drove it for a few more years.
You took what I said out of context.
I said best I’VE ever owned......and I didn’t say they are perfect.....no car is, and just like everything else ever produced, including cars of all makes have a reject rate.
BMWs from 2000 to 2006? How many are even still on the road? They are such poorly engineered cars than it isn’t uncommon for them to be mechanically totaled after less than ten years, even when the body is in perfect condition and the engine maintained per manufacturer specifications.
Great driver’s cars, but even better at keeping mechanics employed.
I still have one and never had an issue with it outside of the standard oil changes and brake adjustment. Still runs great.
Break My Windshield
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.