BMW X3 2020 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin B120720 · NHTSA communication 10174004 · issued Apr 1, 2020
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Engine and Engine Cooling
component
2020
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
DELIVERY STOP: PROGRAM CONTROL UNITS (DME): BMW AG has issued a Delivery Stop (effective March 5 2020) on a small number of Model Year 2020 BMW vehicles that were produced starting on February 14 2018. Vehicles that are currently being produced will be added to this campaign daily until March 22 2020. Vehicles produced on March 23 2020 and onward will not be affected. An error in the digital motor electronics (DME) onboard diagnostic (OBD) software data status.
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.