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Replacing Bwttery - Reset required?

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Replacing Bwttery - Reset required?

Post by robbee » Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:23 pm

Hi all,

If I remove the battery to charge it (dont have a garage) will I have any problems when reconnecting it? Is some kind of a dealer reset required, Is there any procedure I should follow?

Thanks for any advice,

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Re: Replacing Bwttery - Reset required?

Post by Bing » Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:32 pm

You'll need to reset the clock, and also the one touch window function. That's it.

Window reset options here, different ones work on different cars :

http://www.shipkiller.com/Window_Initia ... dures.html

Though if it's out for a long time - don't know how long, sorry - the car may go into 'transport mode' from what I have read, but you'll need to do a search to find out more about that.
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Post by Bing » Sun Oct 13, 2013 9:36 pm

Pretty sure number 3 worked on mine :thumbsup:
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Re: Replacing Bwttery - Reset required?

Post by Nazy06 » Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:22 pm

You'll know it's in Transport Mode as more than likely the heater/AC won't work properly and will only give a very minor blow, I know this as mine is currently in transport mode, to get get out of TM will have to have a reset done from a garage to 'delete' TM, again I know this as BMW did this on mine and fixed the problem but because I'm having battery failure problems it went back into TM.
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Re: Replacing Bwttery - Reset required?

Post by srhutch » Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:48 pm

It won't go into transport mode if battery is not connected. It's when it us send draining down that causes the problem. My old z4 drained twice though but never went into transport mode, so I guess its pot luck on that front.
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Re: Replacing Bwttery - Reset required?

Post by ronk » Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:23 pm

robbee wrote:Hi all,

If I remove the battery to charge it (dont have a garage) will I have any problems when reconnecting it? Is some kind of a dealer reset required, Is there any procedure I should follow?

Thanks for any advice,

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Re: Replacing Bwttery - Reset required?

Post by Z4M-2006 » Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:46 pm

Nazy06 wrote:You'll know it's in Transport Mode as more than likely the heater/AC won't work properly and will only give a very minor blow, I know this as mine is currently in transport mode, to get get out of TM will have to have a reset done from a garage to 'delete' TM, again I know this as BMW did this on mine and fixed the problem but because I'm having battery failure problems it went back into TM.

Whats this very minor blow you speak of..? :P
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