2015 MINI Cooper defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2015 MINI Cooper. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• BMW Safety Act Violations
  Audit Query AQ15004 · opened Sep 24, 2015 · closed Oct 2, 2017

  In a Consent Order executed on December 17, 2015, BMW of North America, LLC (BMW NA) admitted that it violated the Safety Act by: failing to conduct a timely recall for Recall No. 15V-450; failing to file certain quarterly recall reports in a timely manner; failing to timely notify vehicle owners of the existence of a …

• International Autos, Inc. / Mini Recall
  Audit Query AQ15003 · opened Aug 18, 2015 · closed Aug 23, 2016

  The Safety Act requires, among other things, that a manufacturer notify its dealers of defects related to motor vehicle safety and non-compliances with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and, in turn, that a dealer not sell and deliver a new vehicle subject to a recall unless the recall remedy has been performed (4…