London — On Wednesday, German car maker BMW said it was expanding a British recall on faulty vehicles whose engines are at risk of suddenly cutting out. A company spokesman said 312,000 diesel and petrol cars were being recalled in Britain, having conducted safety checks on more than 36,000 petrol cars in 2017. The electrical fault could be fixed within two hours and involved replacing a plug, he said. The affected models are the BMW 1 Series, the 3 Series, the Z4 and its X1 cars produced between March 2007 and August 2011. "Now we recognise the need to widen the recall to capture a larger cohort of cars. We are widening the net as a precaution," a BMW spokesperson said. The group will contact owners of the cars over the next three weeks. The car maker made the decision to expand the recall after the BBC reported that there may have been similar issues in cars not covered by the initial checks. Britain’s Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) revealed last week that BMW had fail...
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