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Korea Launches Its Own Tests on Fire-Prone BMW Cars
Experts in South Korea will conduct their own tests to help determine why more than 40 BMW diesels cars have caught fire in the country this year, The Korea Herald reports.
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Experts in South Korea will conduct their own tests to help determine why more than 40 BMW diesels cars have caught fire in the country this year, The Korea Herald reports.
BMW has blamed the blazes on a faulty exhaust gas recirculation system, which is used to reduce emission of nitrogen oxides.
The state-owned Korea Automobile Testing and Research Institute says it will evaluate a trio of BMW 520 diesels in hopes of discovering exactly what triggers the fires. The most recently reported blaze occurred yesterday. The institute also aims to discover why the same device has not been linked to fires in European models.
The Herald says Korea has assembled a team of 34 experts, 20 of them outside the institute, to conduct the tests. BMW is recall recalling 106,300 of the cars in Korea to replace their EGR systems. The government has urged affected owners not to drive their vehicles until they are inspected.
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