BMW has called for more than 230,000 vehicles in the United States because they could have defective airbags made by the Japanese group Takata.
The German company has assured that a small percentage of these cars and SUVs could equip Takata airbag modules with defective inflators that could have been installed as spare parts or replacement parts, Efe Dow Jones has been able to know.
According to explains, the German manufacturer the original modules of the airbags of those cars did not contain those inflators.
The call for review concerns Series 3 units manufactured between 2000 and 2002, Series 5 between 2001 and 2002, and Tocons (X5 and X3) between 2001 and 2003.
Takata is facing financial hardship over the withdrawal of millions of defective airbags worldwide from the potential for them to explode. This problem has been linked to 11 deaths and about 180 injured in the United States, according to federal authorities.
BMW would have discovered the problem in November 2016 following a customer inquiry.
A spokesman for the company has avoided specifying how much would cost the calls for review and substitutions, nor if the costs will be assumed by BMW or Takata.
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