yuryg

I own an '06 530xi with 7k miles. A few weeks ago steering wheel lost much of it's resistance and the typical BMW feedback almost completely disappeared. That is, normally, the steering is tight, especially at highway speeds - a small turn of the steering wheel directs the car in the desired direction. However, now the wheel feels very loose, it has less resistance than my wife's 4 year old truck.

Simultaneously, I've noticed two other effects:
1. it feels that I need to rotate the steering wheel more than before to turn the same angle on the corners, 2. car feels less taut, more like a large Lincoln Town car.

My dealer mechanic looked at the car, but could not find anything wrong with it. I then test drove my car and another 530xi with him, and then he agreed that my steering is "loose and has less resistance", however after communicating with technicians in Germany they could not find a problem. No computer errors were detected.

This is the 3rd steering related issue with the car. At 2k miles the steering wheel was recentered. At 5k miles steering wheel angle sensor was replaced.


I now dread driving the car that I loved to drive.

Has anyone had simlar issues?

jet190rs

got active steering?