BMW 428I 2013–2015 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 630514 · NHTSA communication 10147946 · issued Jan 1, 2014
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Exterior Lighting
component
2013–2015
model years
39
vehicle entries
Official summary
"Adaptive Headlight Malfunction in Cold Weather. * In very cold weather conditions (32ºF or below) with the light switch in the automatic position, the CCM (Check Control Message) ""Adaptive headlight malfunction"" is displayed. * When the CC message is displayed, all the lights continue to function. * When switching the headlights to high beam and the headlight unit is cold, the mechanism inside the headlight is too stiff to move. CAUSE Software error in TMS 3 (Headlight driver module AHL xenon light)"
Vehicles covered
- 2014 BMW 428I
- 2015 BMW 428I
- 2014 BMW 435I
- 2015 BMW 435I
- 2013 BMW 528I
- 2014 BMW 528I
- 2015 BMW 528I
- 2014 BMW 535D
- 2015 BMW 535D
- 2013 BMW 535I
- 2014 BMW 535I
- 2015 BMW 535I
- 2013 BMW 550I
- 2014 BMW 550I
- 2015 BMW 550I
- 2013 BMW 740I
- 2014 BMW 740I
- 2015 BMW 740I
- 2015 BMW 740LD
- 2013 BMW 740LI
- 2014 BMW 740LI
- 2015 BMW 740LI
- 2013 BMW 750I
- 2014 BMW 750I
- 2015 BMW 750I
- 2013 BMW 750LI
- 2014 BMW 750LI
- 2015 BMW 750LI
- 2014 BMW 760LI
- 2015 BMW 760LI
- 2015 BMW Activehybrid 3
- 2013 BMW Activehybrid 5
- 2013 BMW Activehybrid 7
- 2014 BMW Activehybrid 7
- 2013 BMW M5
- 2014 BMW M5
- 2015 BMW M5
- 2014 BMW X5
- 2015 BMW X5
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.