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Good news then. Although I thought the recall was to change the cooler just in case. Maybe I was wrong?
Mines in next week so we'll see what happens. |
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09-25-2018, 11:53 AM | #71 |
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What's the manufacture date?
I thought the reason for the recall was due to the EGR cooler causing "In some cases, glycol from the EGR cooler can escape and ignite in the hot exhaust gases together with oil residues." ..I would have thought replacing it like for like or not replacing it at all wouldn't prevent risk of this happening in the future. |
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This wasn't the original one, which was replaced under warranty in 2016 at around 65k miles.
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While an inspection might reassure that there won't be a fire in the near future, presumably there is still a chance of the coolant leaking later on. I would have thought that they should be replacing the potentially faulty part with the modified design. |
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I have also had an EGR replacement in mid 2017. Mine is going back in in about 10 days for this recall, so I'll see what they say. |
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My mate has the same car as mine (335d xd), but is July 2015 build. The very first of the LCI I think. He had his in for the end of warranty check a few weeks back and there was no work flagged up for the EGR recall.
So from what I can gather so far (on 335d) - LCI models are fitted with a different design EGR valve or cooler which are not part of the recall. Pre-LCI is part of the recall. Depending on when your car was manufactured will depend on if it needs the just the cooler (like mine May 2015), or earlier will need the cooler and the EGR valve. If you have a pre-LCI, but have had the EGR parts replaced after a certain period (sometime after July 2015), then these parts will not need to be replaced. Other models may not follow this as it would depend on the timing when the revised design EGR parts were phased into the production build. Sounds like BMW have known about this problem for a long time and tried to keep the lid on it, then when it kicked off in Asia had no choice but to do a full recall. (this is an assumption). Unless of course the design was changed for another reason and it happened to also prevent the safety issue. |
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The current plan is to keep my F31 for another two or three years but if this recall doesn't remove the fire risk I might have a rethink! |
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I think inspection to ensure all is fine is perfectly reasonable approach.
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Agree, however if you have old pre-LCI EGR cooler that is vulnerable to the problem that causes the fires and they just check and don't change it due to no signs of a problem currently, surley you are still at risk of a problem developing in a few years time? This seems to be the case with evdok's 2013 car!
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Although regarding having a rethink about keeping the car, realistically even with the badly designed/faulty EGR system there's probably no more than around a 2% Chance of the manifold melting and a 0.2% chance of the car actually catching fire in the next few years, looking at the amount of fires and cars on the road worldwide with these exact parts fitted. |
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09-26-2018, 07:54 AM | #83 | |
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Put another way, if my dealer doesn't replace the problem parts when it goes in the week after next for the recall I won't be happy; there's a known and potentially dangerous issue and anything less than the replacement of the offending parts wouldn't seem like a proper solution to me! |
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EGR cooler leaks are pretty common, so there will be plenty pre LCI cars out there with post LCI EGR coolers. Like mine.
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Car went in for this today - 330d Nov 2014 build. On collection, was told that they have not changed anything, but have inspected the EGR cooler, taken a video and sent the video to BMW - they need to wait until tomorrow for an answer - if it needs to be replaced then it will have to be booked in again.
bit annoyed about the process, but on the other hand I'm on 95k miles and a freebie replacement would be rather convenient. I can imagine parts are probably in short supply... |
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Having said that I can see it would become a pain to check which cars within the affected build period have already had replacement parts; therefore, from BMW's perspective, a blanket recall based on the date of manufacture is probably easier to administer (and probably also reduces the risk of any affected cars being missed). |
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