BMW Recalls 1.3 Million Cars To Fix Battery Cable Problem

German automotive giant BMW is recalling about 1.3 million cars worldwide due to a battery cable cover being incorrectly installed in some models, the company announced on Monday.

“In order to carry out a quality measure, BMW is recalling all BMW 5 and 6 Series models of the previous generation, built between 2003 and 2010 and still on the market, for repair at authorised dealers,” BMW said in a statement on Monday.

The automaker said that the battery cable cover in the trunk of the vehicles has been found to be incorrectly installed in “remote” cases, which could cause the car not to start or, even worse, catch on fire.

In the statement, BMW insisted that the recall was purely a precautionary measure, and that no accidents related to the improper installation of the battery cable cover have been reported.

BMW’s latest recall comes a month after the German automaker was forced to pay $3 million in civil penalties to U.S. safety regulators after the company failed to report safety defects soon enough.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

“A review of 16 BMW recalls issued in 2010 found “a number of instances” in which the auto maker didn’t comply with U.S. law, the NHTSA said last month.

BMW denied that it violated federal law, but agreed to make internal changes to its recall decision-making process in order to ‘ensure timely reporting to consumers and the federal government in the future.'”