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Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:08 am
by Adamski
Ok, so we've had a few members report problems associated with fuses.

I thought I would pull together this guide to fuses, and their functions so that any members searching for fuse related issues would arrive here in future. I've organised the thread so that anyone searching can find the specific terms. There's a picture at the bottom of this post with the fuse numbers and their relative positions :thumbsup:

Hope you find this useful.

Equipment - Fuse Number

Airbag - 13, 45
ASC/DSC - 7, 24, 42, 43
CD-Changer - 48
Central Locking System - 11, 30
Cigarette Lighter - 5
Cigarette Ligther ( Australia ) - 5, 8
Clutch Switch - 14
Cruise Control - 28
DMTL ( fuel leakage diagnosis ) - 33
EGS Transmission Control - 9
Electric Seat Heating - 12, 16
Electric Circuits - 12
Electric Box Fan - 33
Electro Inside and Outside Mirrors - 25
EPS ( electric power steering ) - 22
EWS ( electric immobiliser ) - 10, 12, 54
Fold-in Mirrors - 27
Front Fog Lights - 36
Fuel Pump - 19, 33
Headlight Cleaning System - 40
Heated Blower - 57
Heated Rear Window - 20, 25
Heated Spray Nozzles - 21
Heater/Air Conditioning - 22, 39
Ignition Starter Switch - 54, 58
Instrument Cluster - 12, 23, 24
Interor and Luggage Comp. Lights - 10, 12, 26
Light Circuits ( headlights, indicators, brake lights, hazards etc ) 14, 23, 59, 60
Mirror Adjustment - 8
Mirror Heating ( driver, passenger ) - 8, 21
Multi Function Steering Wheel ( MFSW ) - 28
Navigation, TV - 49
OBDI Power Socket - 9, 24
Park Distance Control ( PDC ) - 8
Power Soft Top ( Roof Motor ) - 12, 31, 55
Radio - 47, 50
Rain Sensor - 28
Reversing Light - 6
Seat Adjustment Left - 29
Seat Adjustment Right - 15
Secondary Air Pump - 33, 56
Shirting Illumiation Gate - 24
Sport Button Switch - 7
Sequential Manual Gearbox SMG Control - 9, 32
Telephone - 49
Thiefproofing System - 30
Window Lift Motor - 41, 46
Wipe Wash System, Window Cleaning - 38

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Fuse box access is through the glove box. Push up on the tabs shown in the circles below to drop the glovebox down fully, which will reveal the fuses....

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Please advise of any errors or ommissions, and I'll update the list :thumbsup:

Re: Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:27 am
by AlanJ
Excellent - have printed this off and put in the file in my Zed for reference. THANKS :thumbsup:

Re: Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:44 am
by aquazi
or even better this diagram - which shows the ones which are powered on ignitions or not:

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Re: Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:58 am
by AlanJ
Ah..... the power of the Forum. :thumbsup:

Re: Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:14 am
by Bing
Great posts guys :thumbsup:

Re: Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:59 am
by Adamski
Updated with a picture of how to access the fuse box. The BMW manual doesn't do a good job of explaining how to access

Re: Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:03 pm
by Jembo
Brilliant Adamski, need to refit headlamp washer fuse for MOT at end of the year so will print & keep this to oneside

Re: Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:05 pm
by tomscott
Awesome Work Adamski :thumbsup:

Re: Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:24 pm
by Swiftly
Good job Adamski :thumbsup:

Re: Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:59 pm
by bcworkz
Very useful info guys! Keep in mind there are some differences between original and facelift versions. The fuse for the auto-dim mirror changed, as one example. Most are the same though.

Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:31 pm
by Dice
Thank you guys!

Re: Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 8:37 am
by RickH
Adamski

I salute you sir

This was very useful to me today when the fuse has blown to the cigarette lighter (really the tom tom power and iphone charger) and I was faced with a bank of 50 ish fuses.

15 amps Crickey I wonder how that has blown but have installed the auto roof upgrade recently. Anyone else have this problem?

Anyway thanks :D

Re: Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:55 pm
by Cyberface
are any of those empty sockets powered from the ignition? i want to hardwire my DAB into the glovebox this seems the ideal solution

Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 11:47 am
by big_al
I've just been looking at this to figure out what fuse is best to tap into to power a hidden bluetooth music streaming dongle thing and ended up putting this spreadsheet together of which items relate to which features. Thought it might be of use to other people, so here are some links to it as .xlsx and .pdf

Edit: the links stopped working from Google drive due to changes with the security for links, so here’s an image for now and I’ll upload the originals again soon.

Re: Problem Solving - Forum Guide to Fuses - E85 and E86

Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 2:18 pm
by BranNubian
Super useful, as my fuse chart was missing. Thanks a lot for this.