BMW 8 Series 2018–2019 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin B611518 · NHTSA communication 10152672 · issued Nov 1, 2018
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2018–2019
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
DELIVERY STOP: PROGRAM BODY DOMAIN CONTROLLER (BDC). In case of a rollover-crash, the doors should be locked after the crash and only unlocked after 6 s. In case of a frontal crash, the doors should be unlocked after 160 milliseconds. Due to software errors in the Body Domain Controller (BDC) a rollover-crash leads to an immediate unlocking (after 30 milliseconds) and in a frontal crash the doors are unlocked only after 300 milliseconds. BDC software error
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.