ELECTRONIC FAILURE! Get to BMW Service
03-22-2006, 04:37 PM
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Hi All,
Despite the labor intensive, 3-day software upgrade (with lots of manual coding), I got another momentary instrument failure and the iDrive Screen Warning (with all the center icons lit) warning me that I could drive no further and must get to BMW service due to "Electronic Failure!" This has been going on sporadically since new, (now 6000, without repercussion) and we thought the upgrade would take care of it. But, it blinked again this afternoon.
Has anyone else encountered this? I'm suspecting it might be an early model glitch, but I am also now suspecting that something is loose or broken. Sometimes it will sequentially blink, for about 10 seconds, but always comes back to life (engine never falters, radio continues playing, etc. just instrumentation)
My poor tech is going to go nuts when he hears this....
Ray Hull
Despite the labor intensive, 3-day software upgrade (with lots of manual coding), I got another momentary instrument failure and the iDrive Screen Warning (with all the center icons lit) warning me that I could drive no further and must get to BMW service due to "Electronic Failure!" This has been going on sporadically since new, (now 6000, without repercussion) and we thought the upgrade would take care of it. But, it blinked again this afternoon.
Has anyone else encountered this? I'm suspecting it might be an early model glitch, but I am also now suspecting that something is loose or broken. Sometimes it will sequentially blink, for about 10 seconds, but always comes back to life (engine never falters, radio continues playing, etc. just instrumentation)
My poor tech is going to go nuts when he hears this....
Ray Hull
03-24-2006, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Hull' post='258684' date='Mar 22 2006, 08:37 PM
Hi All,
Despite the labor intensive, 3-day software upgrade (with lots of manual coding), I got another momentary instrument failure and the iDrive Screen Warning (with all the center icons lit) warning me that I could drive no further and must get to BMW service due to "Electronic Failure!" This has been going on sporadically since new, (now 6000, without repercussion) and we thought the upgrade would take care of it. But, it blinked again this afternoon.
Has anyone else encountered this? I'm suspecting it might be an early model glitch, but I am also now suspecting that something is loose or broken. Sometimes it will sequentially blink, for about 10 seconds, but always comes back to life (engine never falters, radio continues playing, etc. just instrumentation)
My poor tech is going to go nuts when he hears this....
Ray Hull
Despite the labor intensive, 3-day software upgrade (with lots of manual coding), I got another momentary instrument failure and the iDrive Screen Warning (with all the center icons lit) warning me that I could drive no further and must get to BMW service due to "Electronic Failure!" This has been going on sporadically since new, (now 6000, without repercussion) and we thought the upgrade would take care of it. But, it blinked again this afternoon.
Has anyone else encountered this? I'm suspecting it might be an early model glitch, but I am also now suspecting that something is loose or broken. Sometimes it will sequentially blink, for about 10 seconds, but always comes back to life (engine never falters, radio continues playing, etc. just instrumentation)
My poor tech is going to go nuts when he hears this....
Ray Hull
Has no one experienced this electronic failure warning????
It is getting worse; shorter intervals and rapid repeats today. I suspect it will finally fail and really leave me hanging.
jeers,
Ray Hull
03-24-2006, 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Hull' post='259637' date='Mar 24 2006, 05:53 PM
Has no one experienced this electronic failure warning????
It is getting worse; shorter intervals and rapid repeats today. I suspect it will finally fail and really leave me hanging.
jeers,
Ray Hull
It is getting worse; shorter intervals and rapid repeats today. I suspect it will finally fail and really leave me hanging.
jeers,
Ray Hull
I took my car to the dealership last week but the tech guy said they couldn't replicate the malfunction so they didn't do anything about it. Anyone have any suggestions? This issue is driving me insane... I wouldn't have thought that BMW's would have so much trouble with the electronics. :thumbsdown:
03-25-2006, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by choi000' post='259672' date='Mar 24 2006, 10:57 PM
I'm actually having electronic failure as well... And it's also getting worse each day; it happened twice today... However, my electronic failure is different from yours... I will be driving normally and all of a sudden my Idrive and instrument cluster will turn off and reset itself and then my warning lights will come on, usually the dynamic drive light will come on or brake pad failure or power steering failure. I would have to shut off my car, turn it back on and then the warning lights will go away.
I took my car to the dealership last week but the tech guy said they couldn't replicate the malfunction so they didn't do anything about it. Anyone have any suggestions? This issue is driving me insane... I wouldn't have thought that BMW's would have so much trouble with the electronics. :thumbsdown:
I took my car to the dealership last week but the tech guy said they couldn't replicate the malfunction so they didn't do anything about it. Anyone have any suggestions? This issue is driving me insane... I wouldn't have thought that BMW's would have so much trouble with the electronics. :thumbsdown:
My screen will flicker, then goes to warning and the dials go dead, and the left bank of vertical icons between main dials will light up. It usually just goes away, but lately, has started doing it in series (6X is the record). So far, nothing but dials or black screen fail momentarily, but I am waiting....
The tech advisor told me that they'd gone back in the PUMA files and found something about it and that they thought the upgrade would take care of it. Clearly, it hasn't. I'm going to call them this week and tell them to start researching again.
Please let me know if your intervals start to get really close or if something drastic happens. I keep a mileage and date log of mine (just turned 6K on mine)--not that they were interested when I presented them...)
Ray
FWIW, the new software no longer says "Failure" in the headline; now it's electronic warning or something less dramatic.
03-26-2006, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Ray Hull' post='260000' date='Mar 25 2006, 03:12 PM
That's the SAME as mine, but mine resets, instantly. It actually didn't do it for several hundred miles after the software update, but now, as you note, my intervals are getting much shorter, and they are happening almost daily. I wondered early on if it was a moderate temperature thing, as it seems to happen more last fall, and then as the weather cooled, it happened only once the car had really warmed up, and rarely in really cold weather. Now, modertaing temps seem to be seeing a lot of activity again.
My screen will flicker, then goes to warning and the dials go dead, and the left bank of vertical icons between main dials will light up. It usually just goes away, but lately, has started doing it in series (6X is the record). So far, nothing but dials or black screen fail momentarily, but I am waiting....
The tech advisor told me that they'd gone back in the PUMA files and found something about it and that they thought the upgrade would take care of it. Clearly, it hasn't. I'm going to call them this week and tell them to start researching again.
Please let me know if your intervals start to get really close or if something drastic happens. I keep a mileage and date log of mine (just turned 6K on mine)--not that they were interested when I presented them...)
Ray
FWIW, the new software no longer says "Failure" in the headline; now it's electronic warning or something less dramatic.
My screen will flicker, then goes to warning and the dials go dead, and the left bank of vertical icons between main dials will light up. It usually just goes away, but lately, has started doing it in series (6X is the record). So far, nothing but dials or black screen fail momentarily, but I am waiting....
The tech advisor told me that they'd gone back in the PUMA files and found something about it and that they thought the upgrade would take care of it. Clearly, it hasn't. I'm going to call them this week and tell them to start researching again.
Please let me know if your intervals start to get really close or if something drastic happens. I keep a mileage and date log of mine (just turned 6K on mine)--not that they were interested when I presented them...)
Ray
FWIW, the new software no longer says "Failure" in the headline; now it's electronic warning or something less dramatic.
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Originally Posted by choi000' post='260298' date='Mar 26 2006, 12:21 PM
However, my service appt won't be for another two weeks because that's how long I need to wait for the loaner car to be available.
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Originally Posted by Ray Hull' post='259637' date='Mar 24 2006, 05:53 PM
Has no one experienced this electronic failure warning????
GOOD LUCK!
It does sound like somthing is loose and just becomes disconnected and then after a few bounces connects itself again.
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