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Bloody thing

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 11:23 am
by ianst0028
So.....
Whilst down in Cornwall last week I noticed that the starter seemed to be getting a little "lazy" 
With that and the occasional odd fault triggering on the way back I figured that maybe it was the battery and seeing as it's new I wasn't really that worried
I took the car to work and ran a test on the battery Friday afternoon and sure enough it came up faulty/replace on the tester
Changed the battery while there doing all the recommended tricks of shorting the leads (while disconnected) and leaving for 30 min
Put the new battery on and started her up lovely
When I got home the central locking wouldn't work and then I noticed that neither did the wipers or the interior lights
Marvelous I thought that'll be transport mode
Today I've managed to get to the car with the laptop and through inpa I can see that it is in power safe mode.....
Ive cleared the fault but now it won't start.... The engine spins nicely but won't even try to start
I'm now trying to configure dis on the laptop so I can have a look but has anyone got any ideas?

I love this car even if right now it's looking like a pretty bbq

Thanks in advance

Bloody thing

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 11:38 am
by Mpower
What errors were you getting with INPA other than transport mode?

You may need to reinitialise the keys as the immobiliser is not recognising the keys (if you have two do them both).

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 12:13 pm
by ianst0028
The only one I could see was power saving mode..... It's still there even after clearing the faults and still no wipers etc also no start
*sad panda*

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 12:15 pm
by ianst0028
Also.....  Having read Le Man's thread I pulled the gm module out to check there weren't any broken wires there

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 12:19 pm
by Mpower
In INPA find "activate" in menu connection in module GM5 and then you can deactivate power saving mode.

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 12:40 pm
by ianst0028
I'm using an old version of inpa and can't see that option anywhere

Btw thanks for all your help

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2016 1:28 pm
by Mpower
I don't have my diagnostic laptop infront of me but from memory there should be transport mode,power saving mode in the function tab from there you can deactivate .

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 4:42 pm
by ianst0028
i had a good look through on inpa yesterday but couldnt find a way to switch the mode off

i've reset my diagnostic computer to factory xp so hopefully when it's all set up i'll be able to get dis working to switch it off then

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:33 pm
by Mpower
[quote="ianst0028"]
i had a good look through on inpa yesterday but couldnt find a way to switch the mode off

i've reset my diagnostic computer to factory xp so hopefully when it's all set up i'll be able to get dis working to switch it off then
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Do you have the use of DIS or ISTA?

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 8:34 am
by ianst0028
i will do later today *fingers crossed*

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 9:37 am
by Mpower
[quote="ianst0028"]
i will do later today *fingers crossed*
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You should be fine with either DIS or ISTA.[emoji106]

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 10:31 pm
by Mpower
[quote="ianst0028"]
i will do later today *fingers crossed*
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Any luck?

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 8:00 am
by ianst0028
nope  :( :(

having problems getting dis to talk to the car

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 11:13 am
by Mpower
I feel your pain mate probably need the correct drivers installed to get comms with car

Re: Bloody thing

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 12:26 pm
by ianst0028
It's driving me a little mad ..... I've got all the BMW software to do the job but configuring it is troublesome
it'll just be nice to be able to see where i'm going in all this torrential rain we're getting (i'm not actually driving it without wipers)