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BMW to Replace Takata Airbags in 1.6 Million 3 Series Cars
BMW AG intends to replace the passenger-side frontal airbags in all 1.6 million of its 3 Series cars made during the 2000-2006 model years.
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BMW AG intends to replace the passenger-side frontal airbags in all 1.6 million of its 3 Series cars made during the 2000-2006 model years. About 574,000 of the cars were sold in the U.S.
The recalled cars contain airbag modules supplied by Takata Corp. that may be equipped with inflators that could explode.
The new campaign is in addition to a campaign in 2013 to fix the same problem in 240,000 3 Series cars. BMW says it is expanding the earlier callback because of similar actions by seven other carmakers and not as a result of any reports of flawed inflators in its own cars.
The industry's broadened campaigns reflect Takata's struggle to identify exactly how many defective inflators it made. The new BMW recall pushes the number of Takata airbag modules recalled for inflator problems to more than 12 million units.
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