This time it seems to be a wiring harness installation fault which can be a fire risk during the replacement of the cabin / pollen filter. Apparently a couple of year's production of 5 series, 7series, including i5s, i7s, and M5s. I've no direct link at the moment, but one just has to Google "latest BMW Recall." Bad news for the brand.
Yes, read about this at the weekend. Bit of a worry. It does seem awkward to replace the cabin filter, so I can see why a rushed mechanic could pull move something. https://www.bmwblog.com/2026/02/25/bmw-recall-ac-wiring-harness-fire-risk/ https://www.autoblog.com/news/bmw-recall-air-conditioning-wiring-harness
Sadly, I thinks it's another example of the car industry going down the software/gaming route. Why delay a product for rigorous testing when you can release it and let you customers debug the thing. Some companies are worse than others. I would say Tesla pioneered it. Those things seem to have monthly issues, I used to strangely receive (must have been an incorrectly entered email address) the recall and software notifications. Even the software updates seem to bork them. A friend had a very early one, he jumped in it to go to the station and missed the train as the car had received an update, he was unable to delay the install which took 6 minutes. A lot of the recalls seemed to centre on poor quality parts wearing prematurely. I do remember thinking build quality reminded me of my Citroen AX. That said it didn't put him off I think he's on his 4th one now (keen trade/finance offers helped), build quality seems to have improved slightly, don't know about the recalls. I think it comes down to the more complicated you make something the more it needs testing. As my uncle said you never used to get so many recalls, but then as I pointed out look how simple/basic a car was back in the 90s.
