BYD has apologised after some Great Tang (Da Tang) electric SUVs in China left the factory with their front and rear wheel rims swapped, blaming a coding error at a supplier and offering free rim replacements plus a restarted warranty. This is not an Australian recall, and the Great Tang is not sold in Australia.
The Chinese statement, issued on 11 November 2026, says BYD’s tests found no effect on handling and no driving safety risk. BYD has not said how many vehicles are involved. Australian buyers should keep watching official local campaigns for the models actually sold here, which are listed on our BYD range in Australia pages.
What went wrong
The Great Tang, also called the Da Tang, is BYD’s large Dynasty-line electric SUV for China. It went on sale there on 17 June 2026 as a seven-seat flagship, priced from 239,900 yuan, with a claimed all-electric range of up to 950 kilometres on the long-range version.
The model uses a staggered 20-inch wheel setup: narrower 8J rims and 255/50R20 tyres at the front, and wider 9J rims and 275/45R20 tyres at the rear. Owners and specialist reports say some cars, particularly the long-range rear-wheel-drive version, had those rims fitted the wrong way around, so the wider rim ended up at the front and the narrower rim at the rear, with the tyres mounted on the incorrect rim width.
BYD says its investigation traced the mix-up to a code-entry error at wheel-rim subassembly supplier Hubei Boyu Industrial. It says the codes have been corrected, later production batches were checked, and visual error-prevention measures have been added on the supplier’s production line.
What affected owners in China are being offered
BYD has invited affected owners to local service centres for a free inspection and a professional wheel-rim swap. It is also offering a loan car or reimbursement of travel costs while the work is done, and it says the full-vehicle warranty on cars that received the incorrect rims will be restarted from the date of the statement. The company has not published a list of vehicle identification numbers or a production-date window.
Those remedies apply in China. There is no matching campaign on Australia’s Vehicle Recalls register for a Great Tang or Da Tang, which follows from the fact that the model is not in the local line-up.
What BYD sells in Australia instead
BYD Australia’s current range is a different set of cars: the Atto 1 and Atto 2, Atto 3, Dolphin, Seal and Seal 6, Sealion 5, 6, 7 and 8, the Shark 6 ute, and the M9 plug-in hybrid people mover. None of those is the Great Tang. A related luxury SUV, the Yangwang U8, has Australian approval, but BYD has not confirmed a local launch.
If you already own a BYD in Australia, this China-only rim issue is not a reason to book a workshop visit. Use the official federal Vehicle Recalls register and your dealer for campaigns that actually apply to your vehicle, such as earlier Australian actions on models that are sold here.
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