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BMW 1 Series M 2009–2016technical service bulletin

Bulletin B620415 · NHTSA communication 10147723 · issued Jun 1, 2015

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2009–2016
model years
55
vehicle entries

Official summary

Service Action: Programming Control Units. Sporadically the vehicle cannot be started, due to a discharged battery caused by a software glitch in the instrument cluster.

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.