In the first month of 2023, which cars in the passenger car market have been officially recalled? According to incomplete statistics, a total of 306,380 vehicles were recalled in January, involving 10 models of seven major car companies. Among them, the largest number is the domestic BMW 5 series, followed by the Beiqi Shenbao D50, let's take a look at what are the reasons for their recall.
The recall is for a total of 171828 of some locally produced 5 Series vehicles manufactured between September 2, 2019 and December 26, 2020. The reason for the recall is that due to software problems, the instrument cluster screen may be black, and the necessary vehicle information (such as vehicle speed, etc.) may not be displayed, which is a safety hazard. This is a software problem, so vehicles within the scope of the recall can directly go to the official after-sales service for software programming and solve bugs.
The domestic 5 Series is a medium-sized and large-sized sedan owned by BMW Brilliance and the best-selling model in the BBA. According to the statistics of the Passenger Association, in 2022, the BMW Group delivered a total of 791985 new vehicles in the Chinese market, of which the cumulative sales of the BMW 5 Series were 171,100 units. The number of recalls is roughly equal to last year's total.
BMW's vehicle system has always been the hardest hit area of complaints, from the background of our complaint, in addition to the black screen, another big problem is that the car system does not match the publicity, many owners said: "The owner's manual clearly describes that the car system can be remotely upgraded and voice controlled, but the actual vehicle is not equipped at all." "In other words, the manufacturer is secretly reducing the allocation on the car. Some consumers made it clear that they went to the iDrive 7.0 machine, which the owner thought was a serious fraud.
And this problem is not only the 5 series, the 2020 6 series GT, 2020-2021 X3, 2020 X4 have also been affected, for which manufacturers and dealers kick each other, without a specific solution.
As a luxury brand that has attracted much attention, BMW's quality is directly proportional to price. However, in 2022, the BMW brand recalled a total of 7 times, involving 58,833 vehicles, including BMW 2 Series, BMW 3 Series, BMW 5 Series, BMW 6 Series, BMW X3, BMW X5, BMW X6, BMW X7, BMW i3, BMW i4, BMW iX, BMW 5 Series Plug-in Hybrid and BMW 7 Series Plug-in Hybrid, covering almost all star models under the brand.
In January, the largest number of recalls among own-brand models was the BAIC Shenbao D50, involving a total of 107511 Shenbao D50 vehicles produced between August 25, 2013 and October 16, 2017.
The recall is due to the fact that in some vehicles under harsh use environment, the drainage hole of the front windshield rain collection tank may be blocked by foreign objects, causing water to enter the passenger compartment, causing internal corrosion of the airbag controller in extreme cases, and the airbag cannot work normally. The solution is for BAIC to take measures such as removing drainage hole plugs for vehicles covered by the recall.
Shenbao Zhi Dao
In 2012, BAIC Motor launched the "Shenbao" sub-brand, and created the D series, X series and wisdom series models based on Saab technology. Unfortunately, the sales of Shenbao continued to languish, and later because BAIC wanted to integrate new energy resources, the brand LOGO was changed from "North" to "BEIJING", and the name "Shenbao" also faded out of the market.
Today, the Shenbao series of products has been discontinued for many years, and the recalled batch of Shenbao D50 was first produced in 2013, and it has been nearly 10 years now, and it is estimated that many cars have been scrapped or changed hands. Therefore, some used cars of Shenbao D50 mainly pay attention to the news in time, check whether the vehicle is included in the recall, and solve the problem in time.
In addition, in the first month of the year, the first new energy vehicle brand to debut was NIO. In the automotive recall industry, NIO has not been on the list many times, the last time was NIO's recall announcement for some ES8 models in 2019.
This time involves 997 NIO 2022 ET5s produced by NIO between September 7, 2022 and October 10, 2022, which are short-circuited due to the short-circuit of high-voltage wiring harnesses that may be crushed and damaged after a collision, posing a potential safety hazard. The solution is that NIO will install high-voltage wiring harness high-strength insulation protective sleeves for vehicles covered by the recall. This batch of cars has not been out of the factory for a long time, and the owners should check it in time.