I found out the Recall is for the Natural Safety Switch also called park/neutral start switch. BMW had a recall than a TSB for 4.4's made between 9-1-99 and 2-28-2001 Mine was made 7-02 but this is the problem. I called BMW and they will do nothing.
The Trans Failure Prong only comes on in park either when you just put it in park it chimes and you get the display or if you idle for 5 mins....it's not all the time and intermittent but seems like it happing more. The tech said if that does not fix it there are 3 solenoids in the trans that are most likely the problem. I would think if it's stuck in limp mode they would be the problem. we will see.
I went to the independent this morning and he checked and cleaned the connections anyway but they were clean, he also could not pull any codes...only when it malfunctioned he could. He ordered a new neutral switch and we are going to try that...I'm not sure yet but I think the switch is around $300.
Here is a picture I found from another post..on this model the neutral switch is the square box on the outside.
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