{"id":12496,"date":"2025-10-01T10:54:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/bmw-to-recall-over-145-000-us-vehicles-citing-starter-motor-defect\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:49","slug":"bmw-to-recall-over-145-000-us-vehicles-citing-starter-motor-defect","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/bmw-to-recall-over-145-000-us-vehicles-citing-starter-motor-defect\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW to recall over 145 000 US vehicles, citing starter motor defect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The issue affects vehicles across 2020 340I, X7, and X5 models, the auto safety regulator said.<\/p>\n<p>BMW dealers will replace the engine starter, free of charge, NHTSA said in the notice.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, NHTSA said that BMW would recall over 196 000 vehicles in the US over an engine starter issue that could lead to overheating and short circuit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12497,"template":"default||default||default||default||default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-12496","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00||2025-10-01 00:00:00","news_description":"BMW is recalling over 145 000 vehicles in the United States (US) as an overheated starter could increase the risk of a fire, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday.||BMW is recalling over 145 000 vehicles in the United States (US) as an overheated starter could increase the risk of a fire, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday.||BMW is recalling over 145 000 vehicles in the United States (US) as an overheated starter could increase the risk of a fire, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday.||BMW is recalling over 145 000 vehicles in the United States (US) as an overheated starter could increase the risk of a fire, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday.||BMW is recalling over 145 000 vehicles in the United States (US) as an overheated starter could increase the risk of a fire, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday.||BMW is recalling over 145 000 vehicles in the United States (US) as an overheated starter could increase the risk of a fire, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday.||BMW is recalling over 145 000 vehicles in the United States (US) as an overheated starter could increase the risk of a fire, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday.||BMW is recalling over 145 000 vehicles in the United States (US) as an overheated starter could increase the risk of a fire, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18075,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12496\/revisions\/18075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}