Tyre puncture, unable to clear warning

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07-17-2005, 05:33 AM

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Yesterday another irritating false tyre puncture warning popped up in iDrive, the first time with CIP 17. This time however, I'm not able to clear the warning. It used to suffice to reset the tyre pressure/RPA and/or restart the car in combination with this, but the warning is still present.

Does anyone have any idea as to how to clear this warning? Will I have to find a dealer (vacating) nearby and have them reset the error? This seems to me as the only solution.

At the same time I'm having trouble with the brakes not working on startup when the car has been parked outside in 20'C plus... Very annoying and definitely dangerous. Especially annoying as I notified the dealer about the problem last year.

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07-17-2005, 08:53 AM

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Are you sure you do not have a slack tire? Have you checked the pressures or are you just attempting to reset FTM? I couldn't tell which from the post.

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07-17-2005, 01:15 PM

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Well.. I'm as sure as I have been all of the time. The warning has popped up at times with both the summer and winter tyres, and none of them leak any air. I am certain, and if they leak air, it has not been to the extent that it is either dangerous nor detectable with conventional gauges. I have one possible solution: the circumference of one or two of the tyres might have been slightly changed as I had just cleaned the car, using quite a lot of water on the front rims.

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07-17-2005, 03:52 PM

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I wouldn't think washing a tire could cause an FTM alert unless it was slipping while driving from being wet. I would rather believe you have a faulty FTM.

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07-17-2005, 11:24 PM

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I had this same problem and had to have the dealer clear it. Good luck.

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07-18-2005, 02:17 PM

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Well.. yeah... either the RPA is very faulty or just extremely sensitive - two sides of the same case though

Funnily enough I was able to clear the warning myself by re-initializing the RPA. I tried it a number of times earlier.. maybe there is introduced some sort of quarantine with the new CIP? Preventing people from just ignoring the warnings.. who knows.. BMW would probably not tell us, but if it happens again later it's probably no coincidence.

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07-18-2005, 03:29 PM

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This happened to me driving back from the mountains. I was half way home at night of a 5 hour drive via Mojave Desert. The tire puncture warning appeared and wouldn't go away. Reaching a gas station after cruising at 50 mph for about an hour didn't help as no tire appeared to be punctured. The guessing continued the rest of the way home. Next morning dropped by the dealer and they "reset each tire's pressure" letting a little out of each and the FTM finally allowed me to manually reset in iDrive. Still don't know what caused it. My guess was the mountains/alltitude.

So, I believe, if you find it's a false warning, resetting each tire's pressure (all 4), allows you to reset in iDrive...can anyone confirm this?

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11-19-2005, 07:03 AM

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now I changed my winter tires non-RFT and I get the warning, cannot get rid of it, I also have the drain battery... so maybe a sw update wud B nice