diff --git a/.idea/inspectionProfiles/idea_default.xml b/.idea/inspectionProfiles/idea_default.xml
index 6d0023466ae4..fbdb5d97b9ee 100644
--- a/.idea/inspectionProfiles/idea_default.xml
+++ b/.idea/inspectionProfiles/idea_default.xml
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@
     <inspection_tool class="BeforeOrAfterIsPublicVoidNoArg" enabled="true" level="WARNING" enabled_by_default="true" />
     <inspection_tool class="BindingAnnotationWithoutInject" enabled="false" level="WARNING" enabled_by_default="false" />
     <inspection_tool class="BooleanMethodIsAlwaysInverted" enabled="false" level="WARNING" enabled_by_default="false" />
+    <inspection_tool class="BoundedWildcard" enabled="true" level="WARNING" enabled_by_default="true" />
     <inspection_tool class="BpmnConfigDomInspection" enabled="false" level="ERROR" enabled_by_default="false" />
     <inspection_tool class="BuildoutUnresolvedPartInspection" enabled="false" level="WARNING" enabled_by_default="false" />
     <inspection_tool class="BusyWait" enabled="true" level="WARNING" enabled_by_default="true" />
diff --git a/plugins/InspectionGadgets/src/META-INF/InspectionGadgets.xml b/plugins/InspectionGadgets/src/META-INF/InspectionGadgets.xml
index 8af7166a00e4..e1e98a4ad774 100644
--- a/plugins/InspectionGadgets/src/META-INF/InspectionGadgets.xml
+++ b/plugins/InspectionGadgets/src/META-INF/InspectionGadgets.xml
@@ -2281,7 +2281,7 @@
                      key="assert.message.not.string.display.name" groupBundle="messages.InspectionsBundle" groupKey="group.names.code.style.issues"
                      enabledByDefault="false" level="WARNING" implementationClass="com.siyeh.ig.style.AssertMessageNotStringInspection"/>
     <localInspection groupPath="Java" language="JAVA" shortName="BoundedWildcard" bundle="com.siyeh.InspectionGadgetsBundle" key="bounded.wildcard.display.name"
-                     groupBundle="messages.InspectionsBundle" groupKey="group.names.code.style.issues" enabledByDefault="true"
+                     groupBundle="messages.InspectionsBundle" groupKey="group.names.code.style.issues" enabledByDefault="false"
                      level="WARNING" implementationClass="com.siyeh.ig.style.BoundedWildcardInspection"/>
     <localInspection groupPath="Java" language="JAVA" shortName="CallToStringConcatCanBeReplacedByOperator" bundle="com.siyeh.InspectionGadgetsBundle"
                      key="call.to.string.concat.can.be.replaced.by.operator.display.name" groupBundle="messages.InspectionsBundle"
diff --git a/plugins/InspectionGadgets/src/com/siyeh/ig/style/BoundedWildcardInspection.java b/plugins/InspectionGadgets/src/com/siyeh/ig/style/BoundedWildcardInspection.java
index e752181618a2..44b780119043 100644
--- a/plugins/InspectionGadgets/src/com/siyeh/ig/style/BoundedWildcardInspection.java
+++ b/plugins/InspectionGadgets/src/com/siyeh/ig/style/BoundedWildcardInspection.java
@@ -308,6 +308,9 @@ public class BoundedWildcardInspection extends AbstractBaseJavaLocalInspectionTo
         else {
           boolean canBeSuperT = isPassedToMethodWhichAlreadyAcceptsQuestionT(ref, superT, method);
           boolean canBeExtendsT = isPassedToMethodWhichAlreadyAcceptsQuestionT(ref, extendsT, method);
+          if (canBeExtendsT && canBeSuperT) {
+            return true; // ignore e.g. recursive call
+          }
           // otherwise it can be just "foo(Object)" to which anything can be passed - not very interesting
           if (canBeSuperT != canBeExtendsT || v[0] != Variance.NOVARIANT) {
             if (canBeSuperT && (v[0] == Variance.NOVARIANT || v[0] == Variance.CONTRAVARIANT)) {
@@ -319,6 +322,7 @@ public class BoundedWildcardInspection extends AbstractBaseJavaLocalInspectionTo
               return true;
             }
           }
+
           // some strange usage. do not highlight
           v[0] = Variance.INVARIANT;
         }
diff --git a/plugins/InspectionGadgets/test/com/siyeh/igtest/style/bounded_wildcard/Simple.java b/plugins/InspectionGadgets/test/com/siyeh/igtest/style/bounded_wildcard/Simple.java
index 715b8fd9ca7d..1f0d0af69272 100644
--- a/plugins/InspectionGadgets/test/com/siyeh/igtest/style/bounded_wildcard/Simple.java
+++ b/plugins/InspectionGadgets/test/com/siyeh/igtest/style/bounded_wildcard/Simple.java
@@ -113,6 +113,15 @@ public class Simple<T> {
       //buffer.append(" [...]\n");
     }
   }
+  ///////// recursive 2
+  public static boolean isBackpointerReference(Object expression, Processor<<warning descr="Can generalize to '? super Number'">Number</warning>> numberCond) {
+    if (expression instanceof Number) {
+      final String contents = expression.toString();
+      return isBackpointerReference(contents, numberCond);
+    }
+    return expression instanceof Number && numberCond.process((Number)expression);
+  }
+
 
   ///////// can't deduce anything - too general
   private static String findNonCodeAnnotation(Collection<String> annotationNames, Map<Collection<String>, String> map ) {