Now it is official: The Federal Motor Transport Authority has arranged a recall for two diesel models from BMW. The car manufacturer had always denied manipulation of the exhaust system so far.
7-series production at BMW
Friday, 30.03.2018
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As the MIRROR At the end of last month, the first time suspicion of pollution control at BMW had reported to the Munich-based carmaker an astonishing excuse: Allegedly had “correctly developed software” for a model on another model “mistakenly” been installed. An annoying mistake is the one who had since made an employee, it was said from the group. And that, although BMW is so proud of its quality control? Experts were already little convinced. Now they got it right.
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The Federal Motor Vehicle Office (KBA) has ordered according to information from the SPIEGEL an official recall for over 11,000 luxury models from BMW. Affected are the models 750d and M550d. Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (Christian Social Union) justifies the Authority’s step of removing the “inadmissible defeat devices” present in the engine management system. (This message comes from the SPIEGEL new MIRROR can be found here.)
It now seems official, what the Munich car maker persistently denies trying: That BMW has also made manipulations of diesel vehicles. The chairman of the board Harald Krüger had always denied this.
A BMW 7 series was first noticed in May of last year in measurements of German environmental aid with drastically inflated nitrogen oxide emissions. At that time, the manufacturer denied to have manipulated the exhaust system. Only when the KBA wanted to measure a car at the beginning of this year, the case started rolling. The dealer, where the car should be worried, had made a message to the corporation. As a result, the engineers from Munich wanted to order the vehicle back to the factory for supposed service. The behavior was suspicious of the officers, who ordered the BMW officials to a hearing in their house in Flensburg.
There, the engineers just apologized that it was the wrong software that was actually intended for other models. They want to install the right software on the car as part of a service action. According to SPIEGEL information, the agency also plans to control the models for which the software was allegedly developed. The suspicion of the inspectors: Again, a defeat could be active.
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