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German automaker BMW has fit to pay $3 million for delays in reporting safety defects and recalls to the federal regulators, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration articulated Friday.

An examination of 16 recalls issued by BMW of North America LLC in 2010 found a pattern in which the automaker neglected to meet federal requirements that known defects be reported within five days, the safety authority pronounced in a statement.

As part of the settlement, BMW and its parent company, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, fit3 to build internal changes to its recall process, NHTSA said

It’s critical to the safety of the driving public that defects and recalls are reported in little order,NHTSA Administrator David Strickland said. NHTSA expects altogether manufacturers to address automotive safety issues rapidly and in a forthright manner.

Despite the safety agency’s claim that some recall filings were late, in every causa where a defect was identified by the society a voluntary recall had been conducted,BMW enunciated in a statement.

A summary account of NHTSA’s investigation pronounced the bureau noticed in previous 2010 a troubling trend in the automaker’s recall filings over the track of the previous yr the company’s initial recall filings were missing important information. Each time the problem was brought BMW’s attention, the automaker would promise to provide the information only then would accept an inordinate total of time to do so, the summary said.

For example, in entirely 6 out of 16 recall reports in 2010 was BMW able to say how many vehicles were struck and how many were expected to be recalled, the summary said. In entirely five of the reports did the automaker furnish the involved chronology of events, and entirely only one of the five were missing dates or other important information, the summary said.

NHTSA investigators too complained it was taking BMW on ordinary over 30 dates to provide primal information missing from recall updates.