Assist Problems of BMW X5

My lane keep assist shuts off every time I drive the vehicle. I reported this in February and was told it was just due to the weather (snow). I brought the vehicle back in a few weeks later to the same dealership and was told there’s something in the steering wheel that needs replaced and they needed to order it. They never called me back to tell me the part was in and did not reply to my inquiries. I took the car to a different dealership in August and again asked them to fix the lane assist. They again told me there was something called an agitator in the steering wheel and would need to see if they had any in stock or would order. After almost 3 weeks of being in the shop when I picked it up the assist shut off again 5 minutes down the road. I reported to BMW north America and did nothing about it. The gm from the original dealership emailed me to ask if I was satisfied with their service and reported the issues, no response. Nobody seems to be willing or able to fix this safety feature I have paid extra money to have.

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I was driving in the rain and I experienced an issue with a vehicle’s automatic safety systems that are designed to aid you from crashing and it would have been the proximate cause of my fatal accident had I not realized what was happening and stopped the system’s actions. The system kicked in when I touched the rumble strip with my front left tire but I brought it back before the system could because it detected the event and created a countering event to correct my mistake, hence begins the issue. When the car veered right it didn’t need to so I had to counter that movement to keep from hitting the car next to me. The car then detected this and created another event that I again corrected before the system could. This created a situation now where the systems working together were creating events to correct events it didn’t need to do because the systems when working together now had a response time to real world events slower than mine and it couldn’t stop itself from doing this solely due to a lack of processing power. In less than 2 seconds I went from driving straight to fighting a car that put me into a horizontal “death wobble” that would have caused my car to spin either clockwise or counterclockwise at some point had I panicked and slammed on the brakes, which is what most people would have done in this situation, but I knew better. I realized what was happening immediately and I stopped it by simply keeping the steering wheel centered straight ahead forcefully until the safety systems caught up and cleared all the events. I am giving you the short version because the system in the first 1-2 seconds made, created, and stacked at least 5 of these events as I fought to correct them until the vehicle’s body roll and “death wobble” stopped and I was able to drive straight again. The wet roadways and rain only made it worse. This is a huge problem and may cause so many fatal accidents that I can’t even imagine, as I a retired policer this.

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