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Old 03-18-2014, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by JCL View Post
OP, lhord gave you a good source with realoem. While BMW refers to your transmission as an A5S-390, GM (who built it) call it a 5L40-E. Read about it on wiki here: GM 5L40-E transmission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It is not built by GM of France as suggested above, but rather by GM Powertrain, a global operation. The specific factory they use for this transmission is in France.

tmv: Nope, it is a 3.0 and not a V8, so not ZF.
Is the A5S 390R - YZ part number also a GM 5L40-E?
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