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BMW i3 2014–2015technical service bulletin

Bulletin 651314 · NHTSA communication 10148040 · issued Sep 1, 2014

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2014–2015
model years
2
vehicle entries

Official summary

Service Action: i3 Business Navigation - Retrofit. Business Navigation (option 606) is a 100% option for 2014 model year US market i3 vehicles. During the affected production period, some i3s were inadvertently produced without navigation. The following procedure will describe how to retrofit Business Navigation to the affected vehicles. This procedure includes changing all necessary hardware, changing the Vehicle Order, and updating the vehicle software.

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.