05-30-2021, 01:06 PM | #1 |
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Was washing my car the other day and noticed my interior door panels at the bottom on all but 1 door are like bubbling up. Has anyone seen this before? Any idea what might be causing this? My 4 year 50k mile warranty is up in October so I'll go get it checked out but was wondering if anyone on here has ever seen this personally or come across a post. Any input is appreciated. See pics below. Hard to tell but hopefully you can notice what I'm talking about.
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05-30-2021, 03:44 PM | #3 |
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It definitely seems like water that has soaked into the backer board. My passenger front is really bad below the door pocket. Unfortunately, the car came to me this way (out of state dealer didn't disclose), so I've just sort of forgotten about it. Drives me nuts when I think about it. My Indy said it could be a drain issue....even sunroof drains which are common issues. I'm under factory warranty, but never brought it in for this since it didn't happen in my ownership. Will be very interested to see what your dealer says. New door panel is like $2600. I brought mine to a well respected upholstery guy to see if he could re-cover the panel below the seem. Said he could, but I wouldn't like the result.
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I noticed this on many X6Ms when I was looking to buy mine. I have a little bit and I need to talk to the dealer before the warranty runs out.
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05-31-2021, 12:32 AM | #11 |
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Very popular issue that's not spoken of I think… Before purchasing mine I saw this water damage on many others to the point I knew to look for it…. Maybe it's coming from high pressure washes getting through the rubber seal door surrounds
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05-31-2021, 08:23 AM | #13 |
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I do have a bit of wind noise so I am going to find out if that is correlated. I used to take my M550 through car wash and now problem there but that could be because the lower door was made differently.
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06-08-2021, 10:37 PM | #15 |
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Let's get this resolved.
I have it on my passenger door.
2016 X5M, purchased as CPO. Still under factory warranty, car arrived like this, was not disclosed, and it's too late for me to do anything about it with seller (BMW SF). I have gone to my dealer, they want no part of it. I have reached out to BMWUS and they wanted to send a "special" adjuster out to view the car. This has not happened as the dealers "head adjuster" denied the repair. The important part is, and this IS EVERYTHING, the head adjuster claimed he's never seen this damage and it must be user caused. I'm really happy to have found this thread. This is absolute bullshit snd BMWUS should stand behind this defect just like they would any mechanical defect. I was asked to pay $2600 for a new door and that was what pissed me off the most. With this many affected cars we can do something. My car is garaged 24/7 and has seen rain maybe once. I think this is glue that they used to glue the leather to the molding on the bottom door panels. Water would not cause this damage to dry glue. Again, my car lives in the garage and no other door are effected. With this many affected cars we can do something. I bet there are more. I also genuinely believe the head adjuster butthead was full of shit when he said he's never seen this before. He's the main guy for all the SoCal dealerships. Deceit is what will do them in. |
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Interesting, I don't have it on my door but rather the top of my dash by the AC Vent. Dealer wanted no part of it but I guess I should speak to BMW of USA. Thanks for the thread.
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This could be caused by clogged drain holes in the doors, just saying. As I don’t really know the root cause.
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When I was looking for my x5m last summer, I saw this exact issue on several x5m interiors. Every single one had some degree of this exact squiggly line defect on the front doors. This was on 4-5 f85 x5ms with less than 30k miles, all in the new England area.
I searched for this issue after I saw this on the first x5m I looked at, but couldn't find anything about it online. As previous poster mentioned, once you know to look for it, you will always find it. Even the one I ended up buying had a small spot on the driver's door near the foot well. Also as noted previously, the squiggly line damage is very prominent right under neath the front door windows. I asked every dealership if it was possible water or sun damage, but they never gave me a straight answer. You will also find this squiggly line damage on some seat bottom and side bolsters, front and back. Although this seems more rare. It's also worth mentioning that all the f85s I checked out had light interiors, Silverstone, smoke white, or beige, so the dmg really stuck out. |
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UPDATE: Took my ride back in for service and mentioned the doors again. Showed the shop foreman, he started to talk about window tint, door pane removal etc…. I told him I had done some research and it appears to be much more common than they would like to admit and it's likely not caused by the above factors and more likely poor materials or design. They said they would reach out to BMW and see if they would do anything. Figured they were blowing smoke and wouldn't do anything, whelp just got the message from service that BMW approved replacement of all 4 doors and they would take 3-4 weeks to arrive from Germany!!
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