# Service bulletin SIB\-61\-15\-09

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10032640
- Published by NHTSA: 2010\-04\-21
- Manufacturer's number: SIB\-61\-15\-09
- Manufacturer's date: 2010\-04\-01
- NHTSA component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INSTRUMENT CLUSTER/PANEL

## NHTSA's summary

BMW VEHICLES: VARIOUS ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS ARE POSSIBLE ON THE VEHICLE: WARNING LAMPS ILLUMINATED IN THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER; CHECK CONTROL MESSAGES; SYSTEMS INOPERATIVE; FUSE BLOWN; WIPERS IN DEFAULT MODE \(PERMANENTLY ON\); AND FAULT CODES FFFF AND F\-CAN FAULTS IN ARS AND DSC. SHORT CIRCUIT OF THE WIRING HARNESS TO SHARP SHEET METAL IMMEDIATELY BEHIND THE GLOVE COMPARTMENT. MODEL E70 \(X5\) NO MODEL YEARS LISTED. \*PE UPDATED 11/17/10. \*PE

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Electrical system, Instrument cluster

## Vehicles listed

- 1999 BMW X5
- 2000 to 2006 BMW X5
- 2008 to 2010 BMW X5
- 2007 BMW X5 SAV

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [SI\-B\-12\-04\-05](/bulletins/10028370.md), 2009-03-27, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INSTRUMENT CLUSTER/PANEL. BMW: CHECK ENGINE LAMP ILLUMINATED AND/OR VEHICLE OVERHEATS. MODELS E83, E85, E86, E70, E90, E91, E92, E93, E60 AND E61. \*PE UPDATED 5/24/11. \*PE

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