Follow up on the "are you sure it's broken"? My wife's copy of x5: both front doors "acted broken" but only one actually broke. The passenger (right in USA) was just gummed up and when thawed out came right back to life

You can tell if broken: it will lift up as if unlocked but do nothing. If it lifts partiallly and won't open but fights you it's just locked. Try on a working door: locked and unlocked. If the "broken handle" feels like the locked working door it's not broken it just needs to be thawed.

Here is the science: rather than a smart design where when locked the mechanism is simply disengaged, BMW stupidly designed the door handles so when locked a tiny lever BLOCKS the motion of the handle.

The problem is: that tiny piece: literally about 1cc volume, has a very soft spring and when cold will gum up and not return to the unlocked position when the door is unlocked.

The feedback to the user is "the door seal has frozen to the frame" so you yank extra hard. You can prove this is not the case as the door will open easily from inside.


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2011 E70 • N55 (me)
2012 E70 • N63 (wife)