# Service bulletin 51 03 97

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: 600299
- Published by NHTSA: 1998\-05\-06
- Manufacturer's number: 51 03 97
- Manufacturer's date: 1998\-02\-01
- NHTSA component: STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR

## NHTSA's summary

EXHIBITING A CREAKING NOISE FROM THE UPPER DOOR AREA EXHIBITED IN SOME E39 MODELS BUILT PRIOR TO 4/97 \*DB\*YC

## 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

Body and frame

## Vehicles listed

- 1996 BMW 528I
- 1997 BMW 528I
- 1996 BMW 540I
- 1997 BMW 540I
- 1996 to 1997 BMW M5

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [11 05 97](/bulletins/53344.md), 2000-02-29, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE. LEFT SIDE ENGINE SUPPORT MAY CONTACT THE FRONT SUBFRAME, CAUSING A DRONE NOISE. \*AK

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