IBM and lenovo laptop battery recalls

September 2006
IBM's laptops are now manufactured and distributed by Lenovo so it is the company actually doing the recall and battery swaps. These recalls are similar to those issued earlier by Dell and Apple and once again involve batteries made by Sony. This recall is for laptops and replacement batteries sold between February 2005 and September 2006. If you have one of these Thinkpads you should go to http://www.lenovo.com/batteryprogram to determine if you have a battery that has been recalled and if necessary arrange a battery swap. Not all batteries in these models are subject to recall.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission gives some additional information at http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml06/06270.html

They list the following battery part numbers as being recalled, but use the Lenovo site above to check in case additional part numbers get added.

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