X5 and Mini re-calls

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robkola

Original Poster:

1,589 posts

265 months

Wednesday 31st July 2002
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Well well, recalling 100,000 because of "one or two" vehicles developing faults.

Interested to know what fellow Pistonheaders feel about the effect this will have on BMW - the X5 sounds rather worrying with its brake pedal failure (not sure how many drivers can reach them anyway!)

p7ulg

1,052 posts

284 months

Wednesday 31st July 2002
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And they talk about TVR reliability

marki

15,763 posts

271 months

Wednesday 31st July 2002
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Well at least they are recalling the cars concerned instead of leaving the owners to sort out the problems , remind you of anyone

simpo one

85,556 posts

266 months

Wednesday 31st July 2002
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From www.sniffpetrol.com last year:

'Another embarassing recall for the MINI after BMW found cars have been leaving Cowley with a live wolf accidentally left on the back seat. The error was discovered by an engineer transporting live chickens'