2011 BMW 550i xDrive Service and Repair Manual

This factory service and repair manual for the 2011 BMW 550i xDrive was written for a four-door sedan carrying a turbocharged 4.4L V8 with double overhead camshafts and gasoline fueling, driving all four wheels. The listing shows a single Base trim. A V8 packed into a sedan engine bay leaves little room to work by feel, which is where sequence matters: the manual gives the order in which components come off, the tightening values they go back on with, and the wiring diagrams for everything routed around them.

Engines covered

• 4.4L V8 — DOHC, turbocharged, gasoline

Body styles covered

• 4-door sedan

Trims covered

• Base

Known issues on the 2011 550i xDrive. Owners have logged 165 complaints against this model year. Tires lead the count with 41, followed by steering with 22 and the electrical system with 18, so the pattern points at what a driver notices from the seat, namely how the car rides on its wheels, how it responds at the rim, and what fails to switch on. All three sit inside this manual's scope, with wheel and tire specifications and alignment values, steering rack and column procedures, and complete circuit diagrams with the tests that isolate a fault to one branch.