We’ve already heard*the news that sales were halted due to incorrect weight capacity stickers so this isn’t exactly breaking news but the NHTSA made the filing public today, which sheds more light onto the situation. 13,130 MINIs are affected by the recall, from the 2014 and 2015 lineup. Essentially, these MINIs have labels that contain […] More...
Does anybody even look at that sticker? And if they do when they clean out the door jambs.... Do they even read it?
Yes every time I clean out the door jambs! Now ask if I have ever read it... Thats a different story!
This is where the door jam ingredients come from. It's an old recipe, not very tasty though, and kind of gritty.
I'd like to personally thank NHTSA for doing the heavy hitting work of keeping me safe from misleading stickers.
From now on, I'm weighing everything I put in my MINI, just to make sure I'm in compliance with the sticker.
They probably figured they could slide by and not get caught...:fingerscrossed: No one looks at that sticker in the whole world except The Mod Father and only when he has dirty jambs and he needs something to read while he's cleaning them.......
Sorry - the NHTSA didn't catch it. BMW did. BMW noticed the discrepancy between what they had on the sticker and what they were seeing in post-release development testing so they issued a voluntary recall on the sticker and alerted the NHTSA that they were out of compliance. The NHTSA probably would have noticed eventually but at least BMW caught it first.