German car giant BMW has announced a worldwide recall of 345,000 of its cars due to a braking problem. Some Rolls-Royce cars, which are also made by the company, have also been recalled, though it is thought to be more on a precautionary basis.
A BMW spokesman has insisted that there have been no customer complaints and no injuries had been reported. They have taken this step to ensure that there is no disastrous repeat of the problems that Toyota suffered with its faulty accelerators at the start of the year. BMW, who pulled out of Formula 1 racing at the end of the 2009 season and are currently mulling over returns to both sportscar racing and touring cars in Germany are recalling nearly 200,000 cars in the US and 10,522 models in the UK.
The models affected involve the BMW 5, 6 & 7 Series vehicles from 2002-2010 models. The diagnosis with the brakes is that a leak has been spotted in the power braking system. As news came through of the recall on Friday afternoon, shares in BMW dropped by nearly 3% on the stock exchange, though that doesn’t come to great surprise.
Any BMW owner who is worried about their car should call the BMW customer service number on 0800 325600.
Let’s hope that BMW’s quick action will prevent other manufacturers from running into similar issues in the future.
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