Originally Posted by 02dag

No, I am still using the old one. It is good enough. In the winters it can get very cold here, as you would know. From time to time the date and time resets to zero when starting in cold(below 5+ C)weather. I think it could have been one of those times this happened. If I wait until the idrive starts up, the resetting never happens. I believe that it has something to do with the glow plugs, starter motor and Idrive. That drains a lot of power from the battery at once. This is exactly when the ELV kicks in to action too.

I had googled a lot to find a way to get rid of the warning light, but never found anything useful, so I thought I just had to live with it. Then after over a year my car wouldnt start after work, so I had to get road assistance to get it home. This particular day they were very busy, so I didnt get my car home until late in the evening. Used these hours to try once more to find a solution, and found a similar recipe. When my car came home, I used 5 minutes to reset the counters, and the problem was solved.

You can imagine how nice it was to finally enter the car without having that annoying "PLOING" sound anymore.

Originally Posted by Tymm

Hi all my wifes 2006 520d has the steering lock fault, how so I find out what is at fault without taking it to the garage, I do have INPA but i've only just got it up and running and I don't yet know to much about it, any help would be good

Thanks