BMW 320I 2012–2017 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin B612617 · NHTSA communication 10149257 · issued May 1, 2017
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2012–2017
model years
39
vehicle entries
Official summary
Charging of the high voltage battery is interrupted and will not complete. A change in the job structure in ISTA causes the BDC to open the 30B relay unexpectedly.
Vehicles covered
- 2013 BMW 320I
- 2014 BMW 320I
- 2015 BMW 320I
- 2016 BMW 320I
- 2017 BMW 320I
- 2014 BMW 328D
- 2015 BMW 328D
- 2016 BMW 328D
- 2017 BMW 328D
- 2012 BMW 328I
- 2013 BMW 328I
- 2014 BMW 328I
- 2015 BMW 328I
- 2016 BMW 328I
- 2016 BMW 330E
- 2017 BMW 330E
- 2017 BMW 330I
- 2012 BMW 335I
- 2013 BMW 335I
- 2014 BMW 335I
- 2015 BMW 335I
- 2016 BMW 335I
- 2016 BMW 340I
- 2017 BMW 340I
- 2013 BMW Activehybrid 3
- 2014 BMW Activehybrid 3
- 2015 BMW Activehybrid 3
- 2014 BMW i3
- 2015 BMW i3
- 2016 BMW i3
- 2017 BMW i3
- 2014 BMW i8
- 2015 BMW i8
- 2016 BMW i8
- 2017 BMW i8
- 2014 BMW X5
- 2015 BMW X5
- 2016 BMW X5
- 2017 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.