BMW 525D Xdrive 2013–2015 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 651614 · NHTSA communication 10148427 · issued Nov 1, 2014
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2013–2015
model years
49
vehicle entries
Official summary
Central Information Display Intermittently Dimming or Flashing Off/On. Intermittently the Central Information Display (CID) dims and/or flashes off/on. There are two possible root causes for this issue. Cause 1: Voltage supply error from the Headunit-high (HU-H) to the Central Information Display (CID) when the display brightness is set to 60% or higher Cause 2: Calibration data for dimming the Central Information Display (CID) at high temperatures or bright sunlight is set incorrectly internally in the CID Affected Central Information Displays were manufactured from 02/01/2013 to 06/09/2014.
Vehicles covered
- 2014 BMW 525D Xdrive
- 2013 BMW 528I
- 2014 BMW 528I
- 2015 BMW 528I
- 2014 BMW 535D
- 2015 BMW 535D
- 2013 BMW 535I
- 2014 BMW 535I
- 2015 BMW 535I
- 2013 BMW 550I
- 2014 BMW 550I
- 2015 BMW 550I
- 2013 BMW 640I
- 2014 BMW 640I
- 2015 BMW 640I
- 2013 BMW 650I
- 2014 BMW 650I
- 2015 BMW 650I
- 2013 BMW 740I
- 2014 BMW 740I
- 2015 BMW 740I
- 2015 BMW 740LD
- 2013 BMW 740LI
- 2014 BMW 740LI
- 2015 BMW 740LI
- 2013 BMW 750I
- 2014 BMW 750I
- 2015 BMW 750I
- 2013 BMW 750LI
- 2014 BMW 750LI
- 2015 BMW 750LI
- 2014 BMW 760LI
- 2015 BMW 760LI
- 2013 BMW Activehybrid 5
- 2013 BMW Activehybrid 7
- 2014 BMW Activehybrid 7
- 2015 BMW Activehybrid 7
- 2013 BMW F800 R
- 2015 BMW F800 R
- 2013 BMW M5
- 2014 BMW M5
- 2015 BMW M5
- 2013 BMW M6
- 2014 BMW M6
- 2015 BMW M6
- 2013 BMW R 1200 GS
- 2014 BMW R1200 S Adventure
- 2015 BMW R1200 S Adventure
- 2015 BMW R Nine T
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.