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Engine Catches Fire, This Car Manufacturer Recalls 323,700 cars

Luxury carmaker BMW is recalling around 324,000 diesel vehicles in Europe, to fix a technical fault that’s caused 27 engine fires in South Korea, as reported by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The car giant blamed a faulty component called the exhaust gas recirculation cooler that generated excessive sediment and caused engines to catch fire “in rare cases”.

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On Monday, the company announced it would be recalling 106,000 of the vehicles from South Korea, following the spate of fires in the country earlier this year. Of the total recall, around 96.300 vehicles are in Germany, the newspaper said. Earlier this month South Korea opened an investigation into an alleged delay by BMW in announcing the recall.

A total of 13 South Korean owners of BMW vehicles filed a class action lawsuit against the German automaker on Friday, August 3rd. They said they could not drive their cars out of fear the faulty part could catch fire, Yonhap News Agency reported. Last week, South Korea’s Transport Minister Kim Hyun-mee said the country would investigate the case in a “thorough and transparent manner” and take legal action if needed. The government launched the probe into the affected models on July 16th.

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