# Service bulletin B611421

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: 10205093
- Published by NHTSA: 2021\-12\-20
- Manufacturer's number: B611421
- Manufacturer's date: 2021\-11\-01
- NHTSA component: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:OIL/LUBRICATION:PRESSURE/TEMPERATURE SENSOR

## NHTSA's summary

The BMW Gesture Control function may fail permanently as a result of high temperature fluctuations.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2021/MC-10205093-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2021/MC-10205093-9999.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Engine, Engine oil and lubrication

## Vehicles listed

- 2018 to 2021 BMW 530E
- 2017 to 2021 BMW 530I
- 2018 to 2019 BMW 540D
- 2020 BMW 540D
- 2017 to 2021 BMW 540I
- 2018 BMW C 400 X
- 2017 BMW F800 R
- 2021 BMW M3
- 2017 BMW M550I
- 2018 to 2021 BMW M550I
- 2018 to 2021 BMW X3
- 2019 to 2021 BMW X4
- 2019 to 2021 BMW X5
- 2020 to 2021 BMW X6
- 2020 BMW X6 M

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [B510122](/bulletins/10208179.md), 2022-02-22, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:OIL/LUBRICATION. Due to a manufacturing defect, the vehicles were built without the engine oil label. The label shows the oil viscosity.
- [B110120](/bulletins/10200228.md), 2021-08-09, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:OIL/LUBRICATION:FILTER/SCREEN. On rare occasions during an engine oil service, the BMW Original \(Genuine\) engine oil filter insert is either difficult to remove or breaks apart in the oil filter housing.

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