BMW is set to close its plant in Oxford on October 31 in order to help prepare against Brexit.

The plant will remain shut until November 4 in order to minimise delays to deliveries.

Alongside the closure, Nicolas Peter, the company's chief financial officer, said that the plant would likely produce less cars in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

BMW says it is still working on its plans for the Swindon plant ahead of the EU's deadline.

Here's what you said on Facebook...

Ian Haskins: Not another Brexit car plant scare story. Look it's quite simple. Although... Nissan have pulled the new X-Trail model from Sunderland, Honda are closing Swindon, Ford are closing an engine plant in Wales, Vauxhall have warned they might close Ellesmere Port. None of these things has got anything whatsoever to do with Brexit. It's a coincidence that all these manufacturing plants, who rely on just-in-time delivery and are at the mercy of customs delays, are pulling out at a time when customs delays look like they might become a part of everyday life.

Jamie Mcleod: I work at plant Oxford and we are having the night shift on October 31 and all three shifts on November 1 stood down, that’s all. Hardly headline news as this happens often over the years for a variety of reasons.

Peter Day: Okay, so why are buildings going up in Swindon?

Stacy Smith: Disgusting that people have to be shut out and owe time back for this shambles.

Daniel Adams: This exactly why we need to leave on October 31. Labour and the others are the ones to blame on this. Businessess ultimately care little whether we sat in or out but the one thing they do hate is uncertainty. And that's all that Labour is doing, creating uncertainty.

Rob Derry: Turkeys voting for Christmas. I know people don't like to admit that they got it wrong, but when will people that voted for this hold their hands up and admit they were lied to? Today? Tomorrow? November 1st? 2023 when we're still in the biggest recession experienced in this country? 2026 when we're begging for trade deals? It's a bizarre situation when a situation that appears to be binary is clearly not and people who voted for it refuse to see there is even a slight downside. Every decision has positives and negatives. Most of the time, we vote for the one where the pros outweigh the cons. Nobody has been able to point out a positive effect of Brexit that can't be shot down in two sentences of reality.

And here are the views readers expressed in the comments section on our website...

Janey95: Brexiters will just ignore all logic. All economic forecasts from experts are nonsense, all warnings from big business are just scaremongering, all warnings from the GMC and health experts. Well they don't know what they are talking about. Brexiters seem to be the most closed-minded, short-sighted individuals. They know better than any expert. They are armchair economic forecasters with an extensive knowledge of macro and micro economics along their expertise in the fundementals of business outstripping anyone who actually does run these corporations.

TTswindon: So anyone who thinks BMW are trying to help the UK need to give their head a wobble, Germany are in recession and their biggest EU customer the UK are leaving, they only have one thing in mind and that's not what is best for the UK it's what is best for them.

TYR66: All companies' directors are legally bound to act in the best interests of shareholders. The nationality of company is irrelevant, xenophobic and only included to somehow try and tie this to Brexit. If we create an economy that is hostile to trade with the continent, big business will simply relocate – the bosses have been saying exactly that since 2016.