Agreed - time to go to BMW or a specialist, pay up and get it diagnosed. In the long run it's better to pay for diagnostics even if you take it elsewhere than someone just pulling bits out at cost to youCrazy Harry wrote:I think you might have reached that tipping point where you need someone who specialises in BMWs rather than someone who specialises in vehicle electrics. I can't imagine a BMW specialist telling you that their diagnostic kit won't talk to the car for example. I also think that statistically they have more chance of having met this issue before. I guess that even a main stealers would charge less to identify the fault than the cost of removing (and more critically correctly replacing) the hood with a reasonable certainty of finding the fault.
The vehicle electrics specialist is most likely working from first principles to track the problem (since they can't connect to the car to read the faults) and you are paying for each possible idea they have. I know its a bit of hit but for me it would be time to go to a BMW specialist be it independent or main stealer. Good luck getting sorted. Raymond is right we are all held hostage by modern car electrics - do you remember the days when the biggest worry was bodywork - would it make 60K before it rusted to nothing
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What a clusterf*ck!
hahaha sorry, i just had to!
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haha yeah its turned into a cluster headache lol
What I meant to say was that because of the unknown electrical fault the car for some reason doesnt recognize the diagnostics so na matter where I take it, its gonna be the same situation of finding the fault through first principles. This place is called German Auto service they specialize in german cars bmw merc etc.
Im gonna remove the roof and check the connections from motor to ecu and if that didnt solve the issue i guess BMW it is
What I meant to say was that because of the unknown electrical fault the car for some reason doesnt recognize the diagnostics so na matter where I take it, its gonna be the same situation of finding the fault through first principles. This place is called German Auto service they specialize in german cars bmw merc etc.
Im gonna remove the roof and check the connections from motor to ecu and if that didnt solve the issue i guess BMW it is
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That's not strictly true, somehow the BMW dealer gets deeper into the car's diagnostics then my indy (bmw specialist) or myself can.