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I haven't been on these forums for awhile, in part because of my love/hate relationship with the e60. Recently ive been struck with the worst of what Active Steering can throw at you. The guys are right about BMW being a power hog. An EXCELLENT battery and proper charging battery will save you a bunch of sporadic codes and lights popping up.
Ive got it all solved. Trust me, I've done plenty of research in the 2 years period that it would fail.
#1 Check your Power Steering Fluid and top off with CHF11S. This will cause your random sporadic faults.
#2 Determine you have no leaks, if you do need topping off of fluid. Check your Steering boot/dust covers for fluid leaks. The covers will need to get removed and reinstalled to do a proper inspection, they can hide years of leakage, and then like in my case, all pour out at once after a deteriorated seal.
#3 Determine INPA can reinitialize your active steering successfully. Essentially finish with a green screen on INPA and you have done this process successfully. Otherwise, find out what codes are not allowing you to reinitialize. Find someone who can remote into your OBD2. I don't currently provide that service, but there may be someone on here who does, or locally around your area.
#4 Determine integrity of AFS module. These are prone to water damage from poor sunroof water channeling. A bad module may still be accessable from INPA, may be slow loading.
My Case: changed module to remedy Active Steering fault. Changed steering rack to remedy leaking seals. No other way out.
Ive got it all solved. Trust me, I've done plenty of research in the 2 years period that it would fail.
#1 Check your Power Steering Fluid and top off with CHF11S. This will cause your random sporadic faults.
#2 Determine you have no leaks, if you do need topping off of fluid. Check your Steering boot/dust covers for fluid leaks. The covers will need to get removed and reinstalled to do a proper inspection, they can hide years of leakage, and then like in my case, all pour out at once after a deteriorated seal.
#3 Determine INPA can reinitialize your active steering successfully. Essentially finish with a green screen on INPA and you have done this process successfully. Otherwise, find out what codes are not allowing you to reinitialize. Find someone who can remote into your OBD2. I don't currently provide that service, but there may be someone on here who does, or locally around your area.
#4 Determine integrity of AFS module. These are prone to water damage from poor sunroof water channeling. A bad module may still be accessable from INPA, may be slow loading.
My Case: changed module to remedy Active Steering fault. Changed steering rack to remedy leaking seals. No other way out.
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