Airbag recall on e46!
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CJ1987 said:
Well thats good timing i just bought a E46 but dont know if i will get the letter or the previous owner. If i dont get it can i still take it to BMW to fix or do i have to have the letter?
You don't need the letter. Just give your local dealer a call, tell them you wish to book in for the airbag recall on the E46 and they should sort you out. ScoobyD said:
CJ1987 said:
Well thats good timing i just bought a E46 but dont know if i will get the letter or the previous owner. If i dont get it can i still take it to BMW to fix or do i have to have the letter?
You don't need the letter. Just give your local dealer a call, tell them you wish to book in for the airbag recall on the E46 and they should sort you out. 
to3m said:
My parents had this done to their 320d (52 plate I think) last year, and mentioned it to me at the time, wondering whether my car needed it. (They take their car to a proper BMW garage, which they know I don't, so they rightly assumed I wouldn't have heard!) When I googled though it seemed the recall was for 2002 or later cars, and sure enough when I phoned up Sytner asking about my 51 plate 330d - built in September 2001 - they said nothing needed doing.
However my car's VIN appears to be in the range, and its manufacturing date certainly is! So maybe the recall net has widened over time?
(Just for the record, in case anybody is interested...)However my car's VIN appears to be in the range, and its manufacturing date certainly is! So maybe the recall net has widened over time?
I phoned up BMW's UK customer support line and the lady I spoke to confirmed that yes, my car is now part of the recall. So it looks like the scope of the recall has indeed widened.
She said that since I'm the registered keeper I should have received, or will soon be receiving, a letter from the DVLA about it, as they look after informing people. Well I'll keep an eye out for that - I wonder if it will turn up.
I then called the local Sytner to book my car in and (as just as somebody else has posted) they said they were suffering from something of an E46 airbag shortage for some reason. So they'd call me back in January... late January.
to3m said:
(Just for the record, in case anybody is interested...)
I phoned up BMW's UK customer support line and the lady I spoke to confirmed that yes, my car is now part of the recall. So it looks like the scope of the recall has indeed widened.
She said that since I'm the registered keeper I should have received, or will soon be receiving, a letter from the DVLA about it, as they look after informing people. Well I'll keep an eye out for that - I wonder if it will turn up.
I then called the local Sytner to book my car in and (as just as somebody else has posted) they said they were suffering from something of an E46 airbag shortage for some reason. So they'd call me back in January... late January.
Must have been widened as my 51 Plate is in the range also seems i was lucky as getting it fixed on monday with Douglas ParkI phoned up BMW's UK customer support line and the lady I spoke to confirmed that yes, my car is now part of the recall. So it looks like the scope of the recall has indeed widened.
She said that since I'm the registered keeper I should have received, or will soon be receiving, a letter from the DVLA about it, as they look after informing people. Well I'll keep an eye out for that - I wonder if it will turn up.
I then called the local Sytner to book my car in and (as just as somebody else has posted) they said they were suffering from something of an E46 airbag shortage for some reason. So they'd call me back in January... late January.
simes43 said:
And only now do they admit there's a problem.
Any details on the nature of the recall?
My 2003 e46 M3's passinger air bag let go on the A14, wreaking the interior
when it was just 12 months old.
I ran over a plank of wood in the dark.
They've admitted there's a fault now because they have gained evidence that there is a common fault now that could seriously affect the safety of the car - They've not simply ignored this fault for the last 10 years as you seem to think!Any details on the nature of the recall?
My 2003 e46 M3's passinger air bag let go on the A14, wreaking the interior
when it was just 12 months old.
I ran over a plank of wood in the dark.
I suspect that your airbag being triggered by you driving over a plank of wood 10 years ago, is completely unrelated to this recall and you were just unlucky that the airbag was triggered.
E30M3SE said:
Where do I check?Is it the vehicle id part? Because i'm not digging out an enigma machine just to try and figure out of my vin falls in between the 2 vins quoted.
un1corn said:
E30M3SE said:
Where do I check?Is it the vehicle id part? Because i'm not digging out an enigma machine just to try and figure out of my vin falls in between the 2 vins quoted.
Link said:
Vehicle Id : WBAAY72020KJ76908 to WBAEX92090JZ98000
A bit worrying
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/driver-deaths-and-air-bag-recalls-put-takata-under-scrutiny
extract:
'In 2010 the front seat air bags in Kristy Williams’s 2001 Honda Civic deployed while the Atlanta-area woman was stopped at a light. Shrapnel allegedly flew from one of the safety devices during the blast that inflated them. The metal hit Williams in the neck, severing her carotid artery, according to a suit she filed in Georgia state court against Honda and Tokyo-based Takata, maker of the air bag inflator. Williams stuck two fingers in the wound to stop the bleeding as she waited for an ambulance. Her loss of blood led to several strokes, a seizure, and a speech disorder, according to the suit.'
Quoted from: Bloomberg Businessweek - Companies & Industries, 30 October 2014
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/driver-deaths-and-air-bag-recalls-put-takata-under-scrutiny
extract:
'In 2010 the front seat air bags in Kristy Williams’s 2001 Honda Civic deployed while the Atlanta-area woman was stopped at a light. Shrapnel allegedly flew from one of the safety devices during the blast that inflated them. The metal hit Williams in the neck, severing her carotid artery, according to a suit she filed in Georgia state court against Honda and Tokyo-based Takata, maker of the air bag inflator. Williams stuck two fingers in the wound to stop the bleeding as she waited for an ambulance. Her loss of blood led to several strokes, a seizure, and a speech disorder, according to the suit.'
Quoted from: Bloomberg Businessweek - Companies & Industries, 30 October 2014
Krupp Stahl said:
A bit worrying
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/driver-deaths-and-air-bag-recalls-put-takata-under-scrutiny
extract:
'In 2010 the front seat air bags in Kristy Williams’s 2001 Honda Civic deployed while the Atlanta-area woman was stopped at a light. Shrapnel allegedly flew from one of the safety devices during the blast that inflated them. The metal hit Williams in the neck, severing her carotid artery, according to a suit she filed in Georgia state court against Honda and Tokyo-based Takata, maker of the air bag inflator. Williams stuck two fingers in the wound to stop the bleeding as she waited for an ambulance. Her loss of blood led to several strokes, a seizure, and a speech disorder, according to the suit.'
Quoted from: Bloomberg Businessweek - Companies & Industries, 30 October 2014
To be fair, that's a rare one-off incident and not a regular occurrence.http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/driver-deaths-and-air-bag-recalls-put-takata-under-scrutiny
extract:
'In 2010 the front seat air bags in Kristy Williams’s 2001 Honda Civic deployed while the Atlanta-area woman was stopped at a light. Shrapnel allegedly flew from one of the safety devices during the blast that inflated them. The metal hit Williams in the neck, severing her carotid artery, according to a suit she filed in Georgia state court against Honda and Tokyo-based Takata, maker of the air bag inflator. Williams stuck two fingers in the wound to stop the bleeding as she waited for an ambulance. Her loss of blood led to several strokes, a seizure, and a speech disorder, according to the suit.'
Quoted from: Bloomberg Businessweek - Companies & Industries, 30 October 2014
If things like that are going to concern you to that degree then you'll never leave your house ever again!
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