E61 Touring Discussion The touring is also known as the wagon version of the 5 series.

Warnings are displayed but goes away directly

Old Aug 19, 2021 | 07:49 AM
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Hi,
This has occured a couple of time with different warnings. Battery not charging, iDrive stability error and major electrical error.

It pops up on the screen for a second or two then the error goes away. This has probably happend 5 times. No stored error codes not a single trace afterwards that it did happend. 5 times in the last year perhaps.

Anyone seen this and might know anything about it.

It feels like one day it will happen and the car just dies and wont start again and must certainly when I'm far from home.

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Old Aug 19, 2021 | 11:53 AM
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Do you know the age of your battery? E60's do all sorts of funky things like this when the battery is wearing out.
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Old Aug 19, 2021 | 11:57 AM
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The battery did I switch out 2 years ago and seems to have good power.

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Old Aug 19, 2021 | 08:52 PM
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I'd still take a closer look at your battery performance. If you could readout the histogram, that would be very helpful.
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Old Aug 21, 2021 | 12:17 PM
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Ok, have googled some to find information on how to read the histogram but im coming up short. What stuff do I need to perform this ?

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Old Aug 21, 2021 | 03:49 PM
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Use INPA / ISTA software or buy a BMW Code Reader. I posted a battery sticky here.
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