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Hi Everyone,

First post here in the forum, looking forward to contributing over the years.

Just got a 2013 facelift E89 2.0i , great car loving it but a couple of niggly issues.

The cigarette lighter forward of the gear stick is intermittent when powering my USB adapter, I have tried an OEM and generic usb adaptor and it takes a lot of fiddling around to get it to work. And unreliable at that. Has anyone had a similar problem ?

The other issue is a cannot pair my iPhone with the idrive Bluetooth , every time try to pair to the cars Bluetooth signal , I don’t receive the paring code , only get the spinning wheel on my iPhone and it times out. I’ve tried 2 other iOS devices with the same result. Any ideas?

Have a look inside the cig lighter socket. If it has ever been used to light cigarettes it may have deposits on the central terminal at the bottom of the socket.

A long shot ... the cigarette lighter is live only when the ignition is on.

Thanks for the tips ....

Eventually worked out the Bluetooth pairing as it was waiting for ME to type in a pairing code first! Doh

Also the cigarette lighter is much better after a clean up , think it was a contact issue, still a little intermittent but ok if not disturbed too much.