Through all the years of owning BMW's....you learn something new everyday. I was searching through Auto Trader looking for Lori's next car when I stumbled upon this explaination for the "play in the middle of the steering wheel"


"There's a price for this responsiveness, of course, and it's most obvious traveling at high speeds on an Interstate. Gone is the famous BMW dead spot in the middle of the 5's steering travel, that inch or so of movement each side of center where there is no perceptible change in the 5's direction of travel when the wheel moves. This was developed for decades to account for triple-digits speeds on Germany's autobahns."

(taken from a car review on Autotrader.com)


Just wanted to share that tidbit of information with those of you who have tried for years to remove the "play" only to find out that it was part of the engineering design.

JR