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BMW took two years to find extent of brake defect behind recall

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Bloomberg
September 16, 2024 08:26 AM

It took BMW Group more than two years to discover the extent of a braking system fault that is expected to cost the automaker nearly €1 billion ($1.1 billion) to fix.

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