{"nhtsa_id":10147019,"type":"service_bulletin","type_name":"Service bulletin","date_added":"2018-11-05","date":"2016-08-01","document_id":"B512116","mfr_campaign":null,"replaces":null,"component":"STRUCTURE; VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD","mfr_system":null,"summary":"WIND NOISE FROM KIDNEY GRILL. Wind noises/whistling noises from the front end of the vehicle or from the area of the front windshield. CAUSE Air passing through the gap between the front kidney grill and the body on LCI vehicles only. Install foam strips between kidney grills and body","document":{"url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10147019-9999.pdf","alternate_url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10147019-0001.pdf","confirmed":false},"url":"https://open.wenmarpro.com/bulletins/10147019","components":[{"id":"structure-body","name":"Body and frame","parent":null},{"id":"visibility","name":"Glass, wipers and mirrors","parent":null},{"id":"windshield","name":"Windshield","parent":"visibility"}],"codes":[],"topics":[],"vehicles":[{"make":"BMW","model":"525D XDRIVE","year_from":2014,"year_to":2014,"match":null,"vehicle_ids":[]},{"make":"BMW","model":"528I","year_from":2011,"year_to":2016,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2011_bmw_528i","2012_bmw_528i","2013_bmw_528i","2014_bmw_528i","2015_bmw_528i","2016_bmw_528i"]},{"make":"BMW","model":"535D","year_from":2014,"year_to":2016,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2014_bmw_535d","2015_bmw_535d","2016_bmw_535d"]},{"make":"BMW","model":"535I","year_from":2011,"year_to":2016,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2011_bmw_535i","2012_bmw_535i","2013_bmw_535i","2014_bmw_535i","2015_bmw_535i","2016_bmw_535i"]},{"make":"BMW","model":"535I US","year_from":2011,"year_to":2011,"match":"base","vehicle_ids":["2011_bmw_535i"]},{"make":"BMW","model":"550I","year_from":2011,"year_to":2016,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2011_bmw_550i","2012_bmw_550i","2013_bmw_550i","2014_bmw_550i","2015_bmw_550i","2016_bmw_550i"]},{"make":"BMW","model":"ACTIVE HYBRID 5","year_from":2013,"year_to":2013,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2013_bmw_activehybrid-5"]},{"make":"BMW","model":"M5","year_from":2013,"year_to":2016,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2013_bmw_m5","2014_bmw_m5","2015_bmw_m5","2016_bmw_m5"]}],"as_of":"2026-10-19","note":"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.","attribution":[]}