{"id":8125,"date":"2025-09-30T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/nearly-200000-bmws-recalled-over-potential-fire-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:00:38","slug":"nearly-200000-bmws-recalled-over-potential-fire-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/30\/nearly-200000-bmws-recalled-over-potential-fire-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 200,000 BMWs recalled over potential fire risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-graf\">The owners of nearly 200,000 BMWs should park their vehicles outside because they risk catching fire while parked or being driven, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">The vehicle models affected include 2019-22 Z4; 2019-21 330I; 2020-22 X3; 2020-22 X4; 2020-22 530I; 2021-22 430I standard and convertible; 2022 230I; and roughly 1,500 20-2022 Toyota Supra vehicles manufactured by BMW, NHTSA said in a news release.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">The federal agency said the vehicles\u2019 engine starter relay may corrode, \u201ccausing the relay to overheat and short circuit, which may cause a fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">\u201cOwners should park outside and away from buildings and other vehicles until they either confirm their vehicle is not subject to the recall or have their vehicle remedied,\u201d NHTSA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">BMW did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">NHTSA said the German automaker will be conducting a phased recall due to parts availability. Interim notification letters to owners are scheduled to be mailed on Nov. 14, with a second notice to be sent as remedy parts are available, the agency added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">Vehicle identification numbers for affected vehicles will be searchable on NHTSA.gov starting Nov. 14, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">Beginning on that date, car owners can visit NHTSA.gov\/recalls and enter their license plate number or 17-digit VIN to see if their vehicle is under recall. They can also call NHTSA\u2019s Vehicle Safety Hotline at 888-327-4236.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">NHTSA also advised owners of the BMWs to call the company with any questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark body-graf\">The German automaker recalled more than 1 million cars and SUVs in 2017 over similar issues. The recall was expanded to another 185,000 vehicles in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owners of nearly 200,000 BMWs should park their vehicles outside because they risk catching&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}