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BMW E39 2001technical service bulletin

Bulletin 651201 · NHTSA communication 628703 · issued Jan 1, 2002

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2001
model years
2
vehicle entries

Official summary

On some parked vehicles, the alpine cd53 radio causes the bus to wake up at ambient temperatures below 40f, the battery could also become discharged. *tt

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.