BMW would recall about 220,000 vehicles worldwide, the vehicle use the airbag fault of high field (Takata), which exist the hidden danger.
The recalled vehicles included 3 Series from 2002 to 2003, including sedan, coupe, convertible car and station wagon models, the BMW M3 coupe and M3 Cabriolet models; involving 42,080 vehicles in the United States, and in Germany about 64,044 vehicles, the United Kingdom of 24,272 units, and 13,022 units in Italy, while France 10,449 Spain 9,954 units, 7,890 units in Japan.
The co-pilot airbag fault of the vehicle may fail in the collision of the vehicle. At this time, the pressure within the airbag gas generator abnormal increase, the metal housing may be broken and spilled debris, high temperature gas in the gas generator leakage may occur, or even burst into flames, which existing a security risk.
Last month, four Japanese car firms announced the recall of 3.4 million vehicles worldwide, the same reason is due to the Takada airbag system defects, involving about 30,000 in the Chinese market. BMW joined the ranks of large-scale recall.
BMW said that, at present there has not received any reports of the fault caused by accident or injury.
