Help: IDrive Failure
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This morning when I started my car an "SOS" with a line struck through it warning light came on in th dash. Then I noticed the IDrive was not responding. Has anyone experienced this failure before?
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Originally Posted by Bdaddylo' post='504970' date='Dec 10 2007, 07:15 AM
This morning when I started my car an "SOS" with a line struck through it warning light came on in th dash. Then I noticed the IDrive was not responding. Has anyone experienced this failure before?
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Originally Posted by Bdaddylo' post='505018' date='Dec 10 2007, 05:24 PM
Apparently, somehow the issue corrected itself. This morning, I restarted the car several time in an attempt to reboot the system and the time and date still appeared blank on my iDrive screen. I had to go to work, so I drove the car this way. The car drove okay, but it didn't feel as smooth as usual. 3 hours later, everything worked fine and the SOS error did not appear. I'm going to call my service manager to see if he has any idea why this happened.
Did you perform a "control check" procedure using the idrive which is now working back normally ?
Check iDrive / CCC / Battery by your dealer anyway.
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Very strange, I had the SAME exact thing happen to me this weekend. I came to E60 Net tonight to do some research. Mine resolved itself within 30 minutes and 2 re-starts but seemed to drive fine. Please post any updates to this as I will do the same. I just took delivery the day before T-giving and have driven less than 1,000 miles so far, but I purchased/leased used and am at 16k miles now. I have a 2008 535xi....Just for info.
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i had an I-drive failure about a week ago.. around 11pm ... went to 7-11... turned off the car... 5 minutes later started the car and the screen was blank and the cd player& radio werent working... i was a little upset considering i have only had this car for about a month.. (purchased 11-10-07) CPO 40k with 36k miles.. so i kept turning off and on the car for about 10 minutes but it wouldnt fix itself...
the next morning everything came back on as if nothing happened.. so im glad i saved myself a trip to the dealer
the next morning everything came back on as if nothing happened.. so im glad i saved myself a trip to the dealer
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I had the SAME exact thing happen to me recently. I came to E60 Net shortly afterwards to do some research.
Mine resolved itself within 30 minutes and 2 re-starts (car ignition restarts) and seemed to drive fine. I notified my SA and he has never heard of this issue and agreed to "look into it", still have not heard from him after more than a week.
Please post any updates to this as I will do the same. I just took delivery the day before T-giving and have driven less than 2,000 miles so far, but I purchased/leased used and am at 17k miles now. I have a 2008 535xi....Just for info.
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Mine resolved itself within 30 minutes and 2 re-starts (car ignition restarts) and seemed to drive fine. I notified my SA and he has never heard of this issue and agreed to "look into it", still have not heard from him after more than a week.
Please post any updates to this as I will do the same. I just took delivery the day before T-giving and have driven less than 2,000 miles so far, but I purchased/leased used and am at 17k miles now. I have a 2008 535xi....Just for info.
Thanks!
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