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Originally Posted by Rockit
Right that is because the door cables are frozen, the latches will not release nor lock. The cables come with the new handles.
The common problem if you pull hard enough the handle or carrier will break. The new handles and cables are redesigned and once changed will never freeze. Your door latches and all other mechanisms are fine. Again this was common on the 2000-2002 models and BMW came out with a recall-TSB to change the handles-carriers and the cable.
Your X5 was probably never in that climate before. Same thing happened to me and nothing will fix it other than changing the cables and handle. It will thaw and work until the next wet day then overnight freeze.
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Hmm I'll look into that. Last year I had the body shop replace the driver side door handle in which they ordered and installed. I would suspect they ordered the oem part so there shouldn't be a reason why it's broken again.
It wouldn't be that the X wasn't in this climate before being that it was originally sold out BMW Motorwerks out of Minnesota and has been up here in Minot since 2012 so it's seen it's fair share of winters.
Well I have both door handle carriers coming in today. We'll see what happens from here.
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