BMW, Mazda Cars Examined in U.S. for Steering Flaws

[tiborakos]

Strange story, points on Z4, while i have not noticed anything similar in the forum...comments?

BMW, Mazda Cars Examined in U.S. for Steering Flaws
2010-07-02 13:55:47.926 GMT

By Angela Greiling Keane
July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and Mazda
Motor Corp. cars are under investigation by the U.S. auto-safety
regulator for possible defects with power-steering systems.
The BMW Z4 and Mazda3 have been the subject of 140
complaints related to a loss of power steering, the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration said today on its website.
The investigation could lead to vehicle recalls.
The safety agency has elevated oversight of defects
following record recalls of more than 8 million vehicles by
Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest automaker.
The model year 2007-2009 Mazdas have had three reported
crashes out of 33 complaints and the model year 2003-2005 BMWs
have had one crash and 107 complaints, NHTSA said.


--Editors: Steve Geimann, Larry Liebert

To contact the reporter on this story:
Angela Greiling Keane in Washington at +1-202-654-1287 or
agreilingkea@bloomberg.net;

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Larry Liebert at +1-202-624-1936 or
lliebert@bloomberg.net

[teezee]

this doesn't seem to be an E89 issue- "model year 2003-2005 BMWs"

[tiborakos]

OK, my bad...late afternoon news reading produces mistakes (thx god on the other hand!)
This thread should be transferred to the E85/86 forum!

[msimon18]

Unless there are common parts - designs etc.

[teagueAMX]

Originally Posted by msimon18

Unless there are common parts - designs etc.

I believe there are some components that carried over from the e85