BMW X5 2014–2015 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 250113 · NHTSA communication 10147931 · issued Jan 1, 2014
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2014–2015
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
Gear Selector (GWS) Cannot Be Moved Into Sport or Manual Mode. Intermittently the gear selector switch cannot be moved into the left sport or manual position. It is still possible to shift the vehicle from Park to Reverse, Drive or Neutral. Internal fault in the GWS
Vehicles covered
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.