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Reference Materials

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Listed below are links to various reference materials and information regarding these cars that may be helpful. These links are to specific information as noted. See the Links page for other more general resources.

 

Checklists (good as maintenance/pre-purchase guides.)

• BMW Inspection I and II Checklist
• CPO Checklist
  

Specifications

• Fastener sizes and torque values for common jobs (work in progress)
• Fluid capacities
• Fuse listing

Fault Code Info

• BMW fault codes
  (You can use this to cross-reference hex values to Peake reader. It's a large TIF file, about 2 MB. Hard to read shaded hex values on screen.)
• OBDII codes
• OBDII general info
• Peake tool codes
• Problems using the Peake Tool

Service Bulletins, Recalls, and Related Info

• TSBs/SIBs (Central Letter Shop listing - BMW's official source)
• BMWTIS.com (BMW's paid online tech information system with SIB info)
• Alldata has online listings of the titles (only) for TSBs and recalls for:
  • 1997 model year BMW E39 540i
  • most other vehicles.
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration provides searchable online databases for recalls, TSBs, and consumer complaints at the following sites:
  • Recalls/Defects
    
  • TSBs
    
  • Complaints

Service, Repair, and Parts Information

• Bentley 5 Series (E39) Service Manuals
• BMWTIS.com (BMW's paid online service and parts information system)
• Central Letter Shop - the "Official" source for software available on CD. The link is to their catalog, including the TIS disk which provides SIBs, technical references, and service/repair instructions, and ETK disk which provides parts listings.
• "Unofficial" TIS and ETK CD sources
• "Unofficial" online version of the BMW ETK parts database

 

Various

• Various Automotive Calculators

 

(More to come)