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When the new energy vehicles are becoming more and more popular, the news about the spontaneous combustion of this kind of vehicles also occurs frequently, which has attracted much attention from the market. A few days ago, a BMW 5-Series New Energy caught fire in Qingdao, which was determined by fire control to be caused by a line fault, but BMW officials denied that the vehicle had a quality problem and issued an official inspection report.

According to Mr. Wang, the owner of the BMW 5-Series new energy car, the vehicle was purchased in November 2019 at Zhongda Yanjing BMW 4S store on Heilongjiang Road, Licang District, Qingdao City. It is a BMW 530L sedan, and maintenance is carried out in this store. Until more than 1: 00 a.m. on September 20, 2020, the vehicle spontaneously ignited in the parking lot. When the owner of the car, Mr. Wang, found out, he called the police.

After the fire department went to the police in time, the fire was effectively controlled and did not further expand, resulting in partial burning damage in the vehicle.

Afterwards, the fire department issued a fire identification report through investigation, pointing out that "the possibility of fire caused by remaining fire and foreign fire sources is excluded, and the fire is mainly caused by the failure of the electrical circuit at the bottom of the driving seat."

At the same time, from a video surveillance in the parking lot in the courtyard, we can see that the BMW 5-Series Le model that Mr. Wang parked in the parking lot, at about 01:39, there was a small fire under the main seat of the car, and in just over a minute, the fire quickly lit up, until the seat inside the car was destroyed.

Unexpectedly, after the fire department issued the accident identification, brilliance BMW officially denied that the vehicle had a quality problem, and also issued an official test report.

Brilliance BMW said in an email reply, "from the burning trace analysis, it can be determined that the initial combustion position is at the bottom of the driver's seat." From the analysis of the vehicle structure, there is no oil pipeline passing through the combustion area; in addition, the seat adjustment motor, control module and wire harness are checked and no short circuit is found. "

Brilliance BMW said that comprehensive inspection and vehicle structure analysis can rule out the possibility of the fire caused by technical or quality problems in the driver's seat. The possibility of the fire caused by the fire left behind at the bottom of the driver's seat (such as electronic lighters, etc.) can not be ruled out.

For the response of dealers and manufacturers, car owners are dissatisfied, car owners put forward to replace the accident car with fuel version of the car and cash compensation demands, dealers said that can not be satisfied. Its after-sales manager also said, "We have been actively communicating with customers, if the customer has any objection to the manufacturer's test report, he is advised to protect his rights and interests by way of legal action."

According to a report issued by BMW brilliance, the fire accident caused by vehicle technical problems or quality problems was directly eliminated through a series of analysis, and said it may be caused by foreign fire, but the authorities did not find the remaining fire. In the view of some netizens, it is obviously not rigorous enough to convince car owners. In addition, in the accident identification report of the fire department, it is noted that "eliminate the remaining fire and foreign fire sources" and "fire caused by the failure of the electrical circuit at the bottom of the main driving seat", which is obviously "different" from the brilliance BMW inspection report. therefore, this is also one of the reasons why Mr. Wang, the owner of BMW, is unable to approve the official inspection report.

Therefore, for the test report issued by the manufacturer, Mr. Wang still does not recognize it, and Mr. Wang said that he will continue to safeguard his rights. We will also keep a close eye on the follow-up progress of the "spontaneous combustion" incident of BMW 5-series new energy vehicles.

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