g35kev

Driving last night after putting gas in my car - I looked down and noticed nothing was working on the console.

The speedometer / tach / fuel / and center LCD were all shut off.

Pulled over, turned off the car & restarted - everythign was A OK. Has anyone had this experience? it was very disheartening.

Excuse my spelling

gomac

I remember somebody last year talking about this. It actually happened to one of the members twice on a trip. Both times they restarted and everything was fine. I don't remember if it happened to them again.

RH530

Happened to me once. I think the speedo and rev gauge were still operating but it was too dark to see -- sorry officer my "computer" went nuts and turned off all the lights, I coudn't see how fast I was driving.

Anyhow, I tried the "pull over and restart" but that didn't cure it. I actually had to wait until the car went into sleep-mode and after that it was OK again.

gonzo

Anyway, it occurred last weekend on the way up to Atlantic City, having only driven about 268 miles from home, the instrumentation goes out, needles and display. I-Drive System Check said all's well??? Anyway, pulled over and restarted the car - no joy, started worrying! Waited about 5 minutes and restarted again - All's well! Proceeded to complete journey.

The following day, on my way to New York, same thing, after about an hour's worth of driving. This time, it took longer than 5 minutes...roughly about 10 minutes maybe.

I have yet to read a post about this if not similar, thought I'd share it with you guys. My car has about 9k miles, Sep 03 build. Will post on results or corrective actions taken by the dealership/BMW.

gonzo

it took another software upgrade to correct the problem, dealer had the car for 2 days. i've driven about 2.5k miles since, no problems! good luck.

legalman

I had this happen to me in October, but the instrument cluster never recovered, and I had to wait three weeks for a new one to arrive from Germany. Since instrument cluster was replaced about a month ago, I have had no further problems with it.

Guest

I had exactly the same problem a couple of days ago. Instruments were dead and the HUD displayed "--- km/h".

I let the car stand for an hour, and then all was OK, but the "trip-meter" was reset to "0000 km"

My car is a 545 built feb 2004. "Original software" I do not know the software version number.

Helmuth

Sorry forgot to log in. Above is from me

BMW RULES

In my car the navigation diden't work i did the DVD out it and it did'ent come out,the blocked whole i-drive,but when i started aigain it was gone

JDN

Yer lucky. Mine did that once. Then it started cycling the BMW screen for five seconds, blank for ten seconds, and repeated that forever -- currently in the shop in the hands of the unknowing.