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Well fellow M5 enthusiasts, my 2006 Interlagos M5 (11/05 build) with 57,000 miles just experienced the yellow and red tranny failure. The car would go into gear but not move revving it up to 2000 rpms. Therefore, I had it towed to the nearest dealership.
This is a bummer as I was still in the market shopping around for an extended warranty. Thankfully this happened while being parked and not while in traffic.
I was feeling the car being weird lately with some of the 1st/2nd gear shifts with a slight bucking feeling.
Last year on 3/27/2009 with 37,000 miles the car experienced problems with the SMG. The symptom was that it was not going into 1st gear. The test plan revealed multiple faults for the hydraulic system and clutch position sensor. After the PUMA case was opened, it was advised to replace the clutch position sensor and everything was ok again (this was on the previous owner).
The car does have the 27.1 programming on it and the following recalls were done:
1. SIB # 11-10-05 S85 VANOS Line Replace (up to 11/22/05 production)
2. SIB # 34-05-06 Check SZL Optical Element (from 8/26/05 to 7/28/06)
They checked my VIN and it didn't fall into the SMG pump recall (SIB # 23-01-07 right?) but the bulletin said that the affected vehicles are for engines produced from 1/25/2005-1/23/2006 and the VIN Range being B581047-B582710. My production date falls in there but my vin is off by 200 or so numbers. I wonder if the actual determining factor is for the VIN number only and not take the production date into consideration...Thoughts?
The preliminary test pulled 4 codes: Clutch Position Sensor, SMG computer, SMG Pump, and another one I cannot remember. Tomorrow will be a full test plan to determine root cause. The tech suspects theres loss of pressure on the pump.
Hopefully it's a small fix, if not I'm looking at some expensive repairs. Sucks warranty expired 1/2010 and 7k miles over...
I knew it was a gamble, but damn did not expect to have a failure 4k miles of owning the car
This is a bummer as I was still in the market shopping around for an extended warranty. Thankfully this happened while being parked and not while in traffic.
I was feeling the car being weird lately with some of the 1st/2nd gear shifts with a slight bucking feeling.
Last year on 3/27/2009 with 37,000 miles the car experienced problems with the SMG. The symptom was that it was not going into 1st gear. The test plan revealed multiple faults for the hydraulic system and clutch position sensor. After the PUMA case was opened, it was advised to replace the clutch position sensor and everything was ok again (this was on the previous owner).
The car does have the 27.1 programming on it and the following recalls were done:
1. SIB # 11-10-05 S85 VANOS Line Replace (up to 11/22/05 production)
2. SIB # 34-05-06 Check SZL Optical Element (from 8/26/05 to 7/28/06)
They checked my VIN and it didn't fall into the SMG pump recall (SIB # 23-01-07 right?) but the bulletin said that the affected vehicles are for engines produced from 1/25/2005-1/23/2006 and the VIN Range being B581047-B582710. My production date falls in there but my vin is off by 200 or so numbers. I wonder if the actual determining factor is for the VIN number only and not take the production date into consideration...Thoughts?
The preliminary test pulled 4 codes: Clutch Position Sensor, SMG computer, SMG Pump, and another one I cannot remember. Tomorrow will be a full test plan to determine root cause. The tech suspects theres loss of pressure on the pump.
Hopefully it's a small fix, if not I'm looking at some expensive repairs. Sucks warranty expired 1/2010 and 7k miles over...
I knew it was a gamble, but damn did not expect to have a failure 4k miles of owning the car