It is a fuse, I ran into a pdf file excerpt that described it when I was searching to troubleshoot my gauge illumination problems. Let me see if I saved it somewhere.

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)