The other day I started off and at about 10mph in my auto 2004 Z4 having selected Drive. The car started to jump/jerk with the engine revs going up and down. The DSC light was on. I selected reverse and 'hopped' backwards back down the road and onto my drive.....car still hopping. I switch off, and restarted, and it was fine. I took another car to work.
I have done a few short drives since and it has been fine. Just once I think I caught a flash of the DSC warning light on, after start up.
I should also say occasionally the dreaded gearbox cog light comes on at start up but a restart clears it.
The car has done 55k miles.
Any Ideas on the kangerooing?
David
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What codes do you have?
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I had similar symptoms on my e46
After changing the rear trailing arm bushes the problem persisted- the next roll of the dice was the ABS sensor which sorted the intermittent issue
After changing the rear trailing arm bushes the problem persisted- the next roll of the dice was the ABS sensor which sorted the intermittent issue
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And a decent code reader should tell you which sensor was misbehaving.
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To be fair there weren’t any codes- just the DSC cutting in on hard acceleration on a left turn
I know I could have plugged the reader in for live data…
I know I could have plugged the reader in for live data…
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If you used something like scanner 1.4 you would see stores codes too
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Good to know
I wish I could get 1.4 working on any of the laptops I have!!!
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I read today that it is temperamental on W10 but works on XP, 7 or 8. Went straight onto my W8.1 no problem.