It is crazy that a part like this fails so commonly. It should not be related to cold temperatures because I live in Southern CA and my X5 has never seen any temps below 45 degrees. It has seen a ton of 100+ though.

I wish I had taken some pictures of the broken part. IIRC, it was just a small crack on a part of it that held in a spring tensioned piece. It wasn't a catastrophic failure but was enough to cause the entire thing to malfunction.

I hope this helps other members here save some money and aggravation.

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