BMW 535I door locks problems

Filed Feb 3, 2024 · Electrical · GA · fire

Back passenger door handle started smoking.

Filed Oct 11, 2021 · Electrical, Locks · NJ

Passenger side door lock actuator has failed. Door lock actuators should not be failing on cars that are less than 10m years old. This causes a major safety issue when you are unable to open/unlock the door from the inside or outside because the lock can not be actuated (manually or with button). Given the vast amount of actuators failing, this should be addressed with BMW. This has become a common issue with BMW vehicles.

Filed Dec 9, 2019 · Electrical · 53,540 miles · CO

The passenger side door will not unlock with the vehicle in park, all other doors do. Even with a double pull it will not open. The only way to open it is using the center dash mounted unlock button. A definite safety hazard if you need to exit the vehicle in an emergency.

Filed Nov 30, 2019 · Body, Electrical · 59,000 miles · CO

Passenger front door actuator failure causing inability to unlock and open the door. Normally with door locked you should be able to do a 'double pull' with door latch to open the door such as in emergency situations. This is a safety issue as you can not open the door.

Filed May 28, 2019 · Electrical · 50,000 miles · OR

My 2015 bmw 535i xdrive with less than 50k miles had the door lock actuator stop working. If you tried to open the door (once the car was in park, or turned off) and the lock button would come up and go back down but would not unlock. The only way to get the door to unlock was to push the unlock button on the center console. I have read online that this has been an issue on multiple versions of bmw's and over quite a few years and has never been corrected. This could be a deadly issue. If someone was in the passenger seat and the driver was incapacitated and the passenger did know where the door lock button was on that car. They would be stuck. I am now at a little over 55k miles and not the actuator on the drivers side is now going out. I have seen on multiple bmw forums people continuously talking about this issue. Something needs to be done about this.

Filed Nov 8, 2018 · Electrical · MD

Drivers door will not unlock when door handle is pulled

Filed Jul 27, 2018 · 95,000 miles · TX

With time, the interior door handle material (on driver as well as passenger side on front and rear) melts / disintegrates and it seems to be harmful for kids to be touching it and maybe even playing with it with a risk to be ingesting such sticky substance which keeps peeling. It is potentially also harmful for adults to be using the vehicle (specially an handle which is used to close and open the door) and then by mistake consuming food items with that hand ' please review this case - it seems a prevalent problem in this model systemically right side handle part number of bmw - 51-41-7-225-860 left side handle part number of bmw - 51-41-7-261-929

Filed Dec 26, 2017 · Body · 45,000 miles · CA

Occasionally driver's door cannot be unlocked and opened from inside using regular door latch, thus trapping the driver in vehicle. Door will however unlock if the lock/unlock button on the dash is pressed. This happens about one in every eight to ten times of opening the door.

Filed Nov 6, 2017 · Body · 34,000 miles · GA

Driver side door will not unlock using the inside door handle, effectively trapping the driver inside. Intermittent problem occurs while stationary after engine is stopped and vehicle in park. Took to dealer and it happened in front of service adviser, they informed me nothing is wrong.

Filed Sep 22, 2017 · Electrical · CA

Why the vehicles in off position the driver's side door will not open once you complete the double pull on the door handle trapping you in the vehicle the only way to get out of the vehicle is to actually hit the door unlock button in the center rash. I find this to be a safety issue because if I need to get out of the vehicle quickly I will be trapped unless I can actually reach the door button to unlock all the doors there is a video that I am forwarding as well on youtube showing this actual problem many other consumers who have purchased if your vehicle is having the same issues