Okay so I had this issue within the first couple thousand miles. When I try to shift into reverse, whether from D or P, the shifter sticks and I have to wiggle it and jam it up to get it into R. I brought it in to BMW and they replaced the entire shifter assembly. No problem. Now maybe 5 thousand miles later I have almost the same problem again!! Now the problem is slightly different. From D or P when I try to shift to R it sticks at N and won't go to R. I have to let the shifter revert back to standard position and press it up a second time to get into R. The weird part is technically after I get into N I don't have to push the shifter all the way up to get it to R, I just have to push it back to the N position and it goes to R. It's weird. Now I'm still having the issue with my transmission jerking the car when I release the brakes from a stop. Read more about this here:

http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=54760

I'm starting to get aggravated because I love the car but it's giving me way too many problems for a brand new vehicle. Any else having the same or similar issues?

 

I'm amazed to see how much trouble these automatic gearboxes seem to be causing (both pre- and post-LCI), especially since there are much cheaper cars which come with that as well and seem less troublesome.

 

you should consider lemon law, if its still applicable at this stage.

 

Read this it will probably help:

http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=40228&hl=

Good luck.

There was allot of problems with the earlier build LCI's what year build is yours?