MAJOR ELECTRICAL FAULT!!!!
10-19-2004, 06:57 AM
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I have experianced this too....solutions...
Don't leave your mobile phone in the car if you have a non-BMW retrofit hands free kit (I have a Nokia one).
Don't leave your keys in the ignition. I usually leave my car locked in the garage with my keys in the ignition - I'm on call out for a UK emergency service, and drive the car under blues and twos - if my pager goes off in the night, I hit the remote garage door open button I keep beside the bed, and then by the time I'm dressed, the car is ready to go. i had a few experiances of not being able to find the key, which isn't funny when you're in a rush at 3AM, so the ignition is the best place for them. I have a work around where I leave the keys in the ignition, but only just in, so I have to push the key all the way into the lock. this saves the battery from draining.
Don't leave your mobile phone in the car if you have a non-BMW retrofit hands free kit (I have a Nokia one).
Don't leave your keys in the ignition. I usually leave my car locked in the garage with my keys in the ignition - I'm on call out for a UK emergency service, and drive the car under blues and twos - if my pager goes off in the night, I hit the remote garage door open button I keep beside the bed, and then by the time I'm dressed, the car is ready to go. i had a few experiances of not being able to find the key, which isn't funny when you're in a rush at 3AM, so the ignition is the best place for them. I have a work around where I leave the keys in the ignition, but only just in, so I have to push the key all the way into the lock. this saves the battery from draining.
10-21-2004, 08:50 AM
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I don't know when your vehicle was built but here is a service measure for a problem with the Light Control Module. This affects vehicles produced from January 21st, 2004 to February 25, 2004.
Hope this helps!
Hope this helps!
10-23-2004, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by GotBMW' date='Oct 21 2004, 11:50 AM
I don't know when your vehicle was built but here is a service measure for a problem with the Light Control Module. This affects vehicles produced from January 21st, 2004 to February 25, 2004.
Hope this helps!
Hope this helps!
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10-23-2004, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Robbie' date='Oct 19 2004, 09:57 AM
I have experianced this too....solutions...
Don't leave your mobile phone in the car if you have a non-BMW retrofit hands free kit (I have a Nokia one).
Don't leave your keys in the ignition. I usually leave my car locked in the garage with my keys in the ignition - I'm on call out for a UK emergency service, and drive the car under blues and twos - if my pager goes off in the night, I hit the remote garage door open button I keep beside the bed, and then by the time I'm dressed, the car is ready to go. i had a few experiances of not being able to find the key, which isn't funny when you're in a rush at 3AM, so the ignition is the best place for them. I have a work around where I leave the keys in the ignition, but only just in, so I have to push the key all the way into the lock. this saves the battery from draining.
Don't leave your mobile phone in the car if you have a non-BMW retrofit hands free kit (I have a Nokia one).
Don't leave your keys in the ignition. I usually leave my car locked in the garage with my keys in the ignition - I'm on call out for a UK emergency service, and drive the car under blues and twos - if my pager goes off in the night, I hit the remote garage door open button I keep beside the bed, and then by the time I'm dressed, the car is ready to go. i had a few experiances of not being able to find the key, which isn't funny when you're in a rush at 3AM, so the ignition is the best place for them. I have a work around where I leave the keys in the ignition, but only just in, so I have to push the key all the way into the lock. this saves the battery from draining.
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10-23-2004, 04:31 PM
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My Ride: Now Driving a Freakin' Prius!
Was...
2004 545i | SMG | White/Black | Sport | NAV | Logic 7 | PDC | Fold-down Seats | Adaptive Headlights | Cold Weather Pkg | Clear-again Bra | Mud Flaps | Bluetooth | Coat Hangar | Aux Input | All Weather Mats | 18"X8.5" BBS RK w/ Michelin Pilot Alpin's (winter) | New steering rack @ 1.2K & 17K miles| Software V.19.1 | B&B Exhaust (vrrrroooooommm!) <---Click.
My father had a similar problem on a 1990 750iL. If he didn't drive the car for a week the battery was dead. No phones, add-ons, nothing. It was irritating but he nor the dealer eever found a solution (except I told him I'd drive his car ever 3 days if that helped him). I know this doesn't help and is slighltly off topic but it seems to affect many different BMW models (and luckilly not mine).
10-23-2004, 07:09 PM
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Razor, where are you located?
Is it lemon time? Maybe video tape the problem. I don't know if that will help. Obviously there's a problem. What software version do you have?
Was a software upgrade that was done before the problem started?
Is it lemon time? Maybe video tape the problem. I don't know if that will help. Obviously there's a problem. What software version do you have?
Was a software upgrade that was done before the problem started?
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