# Service bulletin B650720

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- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10174030
- Published by NHTSA: 2020\-04\-20
- Manufacturer's number: B650720
- Manufacturer's date: 2020\-04\-01
- NHTSA component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; EQUIPMENT

## NHTSA's summary

VEHICLE SOUND GENERATOR IS DIFFERENT AND LOUDER AFTER PROGRAMMING: Vehicles sound is different and louder after programming to an Integration level \(I\-level\) between I001\-1911\-500 and I001\-19\-11\-556. Software in the Vehicle Sound Generator \(VSG\).

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2020/MC-10174030-0001.pdf)
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## Components

Electrical system, Equipment and accessories, Software

## Vehicles listed

- 2014 to 2020 BMW I3
- 2014 to 2017 BMW I8
- 2018 BMW I8
- 2019 BMW I8

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [B650709](/bulletins/10179009.md), 2020-08-31, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. NAVIGATION SYSTEM \- REPORTING MISSING OR INCORRECT ROADMAP DATA: Do not replace parts and do not program the vehicle. Roads can change by up to 15% every year. To ensure the best navigation experience, we do everything in our power to create the best maps. Your reports help us to detect changes in your area and keep future versions of our maps as accurate as possible. Therefore, a road map error or missing data must be reported directly to the map supplier.
- [B651419](/bulletins/10166390.md), 2019-10-21, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:12V/24V/48V BATTERY. HEAD UNIT NBT EVO \(HU\-H2\) PROGRAMMING ABORT: The CID screen may light up blue. When this occurs A battery reset is not successful in restoring head unit operation Software error in the Bootloader file \(BTLD\) of the head unit.
- [B651419](/bulletins/10163056.md), 2019-07-22, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. HEAD UNIT NBT EVO \(HU\-H2\) PROGRAMMING ABORT. During programming several aborts can occur in the head unit NBT EVO \(HU\-H2\).
- [B170318](/bulletins/10159119.md), 2019-04-22, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. CHECK CONTROL MESSAGE "TOP UP COOLANT" \(I12\). The top up coolant message is displayed in the central display \(CC message ID 166\).
- [B651218](/bulletins/10153774.md), 2019-02-25, Service bulletin: AIR BAGS; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. AIRBAG INDICATOR LIGHT REMAINS ON AFTER SEAT OCCUPANCY MAT REPLACEMENT. The airbag indicator light illuminates after replacing the CIS \(Capacitive Interior Sensing\) mat.
- [B611918](/bulletins/10153707.md), 2019-02-25, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; EQUIPMENT. STANDARD OCCASIONAL USE CABLE \- CHARGING COMPLAINT TROUBLESHOOTING.
- [B122715](/bulletins/10151256.md), 2018-12-10, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:APPLIANCE:AIR CONDITIONER; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. This Service Information bulletin supersedes SI B12 27 15 dated November 2015 SUBJECT Service Engine Soon \(MIL\) \- IHKA FC 801375 \& 8013A3. The Service Engine Soon light \(MIL\) is currently or intermittently illuminated in the instrument cluster and one or both of the fault codes below are stored in the Automatic Climate Control \(IHKA\). 801375 \- Electric auxiliary heater \(high voltage\) is stored: Temporary fault detected after software reset CAUSE: IHKA software or Electric Heater \(EH\).
- [B660416](/bulletins/10151203.md), 2018-12-10, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. """Comfort Access Restricted"" Check Control Message is Displayed. ""Comfort Access Restricted"" CCM \(Check Control Message\) is permanently displayed.. The CCM ID: D0h. The comfort access is functioning correctly. No comfort access aerial fault codes stored in the BDC \(Body Domain Controller\). Software error in the BDC"
- [B620516](/bulletins/10151111.md), 2018-12-10, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. Head\-up Display is no Longer Visible. HUD \(Head\-up Display\) adjusted to the lowest position is no longer visible. Software in the instrument cluster.
- [270114](/bulletins/10148311.md), 2018-11-13, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE:HYDRAULIC:ACTUATOR; PARKING BRAKE. Parking Lock Cannot Be Engaged or Disengaged. When attempting to engage or disengage the park position in the transmission, the parking lock actuator may not respond. This condition may be intermittent or permanent. The customer will see the position indicator on the gear selector \(GWS\) flashing "N" or "P," and a Check Control Message will be present stating "Drive Faulty" or "Secure vehicle against rolling away". One or more of the following faults will be stored in the Electric Machine Electronics \(EME\): \* 222D25 \- Parking lock actuator: No change in the PS position \* 222D26 \- Parking lock actuator: Requested position could not be reached \* 222D29 \- Parking lock FUSI: Level1/level2 fault NOTE: If the parking lock cannot be engaged, the vehicle must be secured against rolling by applying the parking brake. CAUSE 1. Internal failure of the park lock actuator or 2. Software error

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