With a new piece of software that can also be installed in older cars, BMW will tell drivers whether it is necessary to call a workshop or not.
BMW says it saves time when a new piece of software can determine whether a car needs a workshop or not.
However, not all BMW owners benefit from the new software. Some cars are simply too old for this kind of thing.
The software release comes after BMW has been forced to recall over 400,000 cars with a particularly dangerous bug. Read more about it here .
At Mini, which is also part of the BMW Group, there are problems with a number of batteries that can cause electric cars to catch fire. But it is therefore not certain that all cars from the BMW Group will need a workshop. Or rather, that it is necessary at all.
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BMW is therefore trying from now on to let the software decide whether the individual car needs a workshop or not. And only if there is an error that software cannot fix, the owner is told to contact a workshop.
– The fact that a car is covered by a technical campaign does not automatically mean that it must be repaired.
– The purpose of the software is to detect the error before it occurs, and notify the owner that the car needs to be taken to the workshop for inspection and possible repair, says Carl Lindwall, head of information at BMW in Sweden, to Vi Bilägare .
BMW are not the only ones working intensively on software parts in new cars at the moment. Volvo does the same. It is, however, with somewhat more unfortunate omens.
The brand's new EX90 is so plagued by faults that during test drives for journalists, the cars had to be started by technicians with laptops. The owners, who have paid for the cars, have also been informed that several functions in the new cars do not work. Read more about it here .
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