Yesterday the internet was brimming with news of an impending recall of over 200,000 BMW cars, including 2006 model year 3 Series, 2004-06 model year 5 Series and 2004-06 model year X3 vehicles. Engineers had found that the passenger seat sensor mat may have become damaged during vehicle use. In essence, if the air bag warning lamp, and the passenger air bag “on-off” lamp are illuminated simultaneously, there may be an issue that needs addressing.
However, what wasn’t clear from any of the reporting was that this issue is isolated to US and Canadian-specification cars. For those of you reading this in the UK, this doesn’t affect UK cars so you needn’t worry. Cars built to an American and Canadian specification have a different airbag system fitted and the components affected by this recall aren’t fitted to UK-specification cars.
So there you have it, clarification just in case you own one of these cars outside of the Americas and might be starting to worry….
