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Originally Posted by mose121
Not sure if you were being sarcastic or not, but that's 0.001% of the 30,000 sold there. Perhaps higher than expected, but any part with a failure rate of .001% is acceptable to most companies. Just so happens that some parts can cause fires, and until it happens you just don't know. These cars are probably still safer than many cheap electronics in the average home.
In America, 39 people could have been killed by a vehicle defect and the authorities might not even mandate a recall let alone a driving ban. Just ask GM about the now infamous ignition lock cover-up. People lost their lives all just to save a few cents per car. Quite the dichotomy between the two countries and how they handle these issues.
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Actually I wasn't being sarcastic. Clearly it's a problem because BMW is recalling a third of a million vehicles in Europe for this problem.
https://www.motor1.com/news/262023/b...0-cars-europe/
As for the .13% (39/30000) cars catching on fire, that's actually a lot. Not all faults are equal. If your car goes into limp mode 0.13% of the time, that's fine, but if it catches on fire and kills you that's not acceptable.