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Soft close doors and fuses

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#1 ·
Hi All,

The soft close door on the from driver’s side on my 2013 5.0 is failing (loud gear type grinding sound). I’m almost certain it’s the door actuator. I’m probably going to be trading in the car shortly, so I really don’t want to spend the money to fix it until I know exactly what I want to do with the car (I just dropped $$$ for tires a few months back as well). So with that long winded intro...has anyone been successful in pulling a fuse to stop the soft touch doors? Or is the fuse associated with other items?

Thanks!
 
#2 · (Edited)
If you do some additional searching on the forums, internet and the TIS website (www.newtis.info)...you may find that others just pull the electrical connector for the the soft close door handle. If a fuse controls it...I would "presume" that the fuse controls multiple functions for central locking. But I'm just making a presumption...I do encouragne you to continue to do a search for info. The TIS website would probably reveal which fuses controls the soft-close actuators.

Good luck. :) BTW/FYI, BMW usually will share engineering design/function across multiple platforms...especially across generational cousins. In this case that would be the e60/e63/e64/e65/e66/ (5/6/7 series)...so if you find a DIY or a thread from one of the aforementioned forums about disabling their soft-close door handle...there's a 99.9% chance that the same would apply to your e70.

HINT: if you clcik on the TIS website link above...enter the last 7 digits of your VIN, then type "soft-close" into the search box...you may find some useful information about this feature that would include functional details as well as wiring diagrams etc.
 
#9 · (Edited)
Hard to say…you left us no vehicle details…model/model year/etc. Please help us help you better by leaving us enough details/info to give you a correct answer. I would hate to look up the info and post it…then find out its the wrong information because I used a different model/model year than what you have. Some things can change from model to model from beginning of production to end of production. :)

But if you have the e70 X5 50i…then the front passenger SCA (soft close actuator) is powered by a different fuse…in fact each door has its own fuse. See chart below...front passenger SCA is F146 (circled in green):

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#8 ·
I know you said you've pulled the fuse and that's good... But might I suggest that the repair is quite easy overall and I found the replacement part on eBay for cheap ($100 bux) and it has worked flawlessly for over 20k miles so far... Here's a link...

 
#14 ·
Mine just went bad for the second time in 2 years... In it's defense I've driven 100k miles in that time... Found a great replacement part for under $100 on eBay... I'll post a link...

Easy fix, takes bout an hour ..

 
#15 ·
My problem is a bit different eith 2013 E71. The issue is that soft close is not working only for the drivers door. All other works ok. There is bo sound or cracking when cosing the drivers door. It seems like there’s no soft-close any more. I’ve checked fuses and indeed fuse no 145 in a trunk was blown. After the change of fuse it blows right away.
Where I should start to look for the solution? Where could be open circuit? Don’t want to mess up with all the wiring by looking for the open circuit.
Appreciate your attention to it. I was reading previous posts, looking everywhere, but no luck from where to start.
Thanks
 
#20 ·
I have a 2013 535i with the same soft close issue. Tried to disable by going and pulling the 145 fuse but it did not impact the soft close on the driver side. the 142 and 143 fuses seem to be 10 amp red fuses but the 145 fuse is a yellow 20 amp fuse. are there any other fuses that my power the system in my model?