BMW 228I 2012–2015 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 513114 · NHTSA communication 10148420 · issued Nov 1, 2014
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Exterior Lighting
component
2012–2015
model years
24
vehicle entries
Official summary
Headlight Cleaning System: Functional Operation Change. The customer complains that the headlight cleaning system is not working properly and only works after several actuating attempts. CAUSE The "functional" operation of the headlight cleaning system was changed with integration level F020-14-07-500. The functional changes to the headlight cleaning system's operation will occur only after programming the vehicle with ISTA/P 2.53.0 or higher. INFORMATION The headlight cleaning system is no longer activated with the first stalk activation when the lights are on. The functional programming chan
Vehicles covered
- 2014 BMW 228I
- 2015 BMW 228I
- 2013 BMW 320I
- 2014 BMW 320I
- 2015 BMW 320I
- 2014 BMW 328D
- 2015 BMW 328D
- 2012 BMW 328I
- 2013 BMW 328I
- 2014 BMW 328I
- 2015 BMW 328I
- 2012 BMW 335I
- 2013 BMW 335I
- 2014 BMW 335I
- 2015 BMW 335I
- 2014 BMW 428I
- 2015 BMW 428I
- 2014 BMW 435I
- 2015 BMW 435I
- 2013 BMW Activehybrid 3
- 2014 BMW Activehybrid 3
- 2015 BMW Activehybrid 3
- 2014 BMW M235I
- 2015 BMW M235I
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.