This allows the Heated Rear Window and the A/C to work and the heater fan to work at all speeds.
In January this year ‘Colb’ said “Dealt with the Transport Mode first by using BMW Scanner 1.4 in the reprogramming menu of the module clicked on the 'Normal setting and it reverted the module to Normal and took the car out of Transport Mode instantly. As soon as it did the blower motor, heated rear screen and roof all became operational again. For those of you who have had problems clearing Transport mode I can now confirm BMW Scanner 1.4 will do the job.”
That is quite correct but for those, like me, who haven’t done it before some screen shots and explanation may make it easier.
Firstly some code readers call ‘Transport Mode’ - ‘Energy Saving Mode’. This is a better description because it usually happens when the battery charge gets low and it goes into this mode to save electrical power. Unfortunately it doesn’t come out of this mode automatically when the battery is recharged or replaced.
Most BMW specific code readers can read the code. Few can reset it. BMW Scanner 1.4 costs between £20 and £25. It is a plug to go into the OBDC2 port, a USB cable to connect it to a laptop and a CD or USB stick to provide the software. Its old fashioned equipment dating back to 2008 or before so was originally designed to run on Windows XP. I ran it on an old Dell laptop dating from 2009 which had Windows Professional 7 (32bit) operating system. New drivers need to be downloaded and the CD/USB Stick has instructions and video how to do this. One word of caution, having installed it all correctly clicking on the desktop icon to run BMW Scanner will give the error message “Hardware not found” unless it is plugged into the Z4s ODBC2 port. The ‘Hardware’ it is referring to is not what you have just bought but the Z4!
When connected switch on the ignition and start up BMW Scanner on the laptop. It will check you have switched on the ignition and the produce a Vehicle information Screen:-
- BMW Z4 DKE45Y Car ID & Spec 1 25-3-22.PNG (20.39 KiB) Viewed 1918 times
Click on Close and 3 pages of modules become available. Double Click on the words ‘Heater and Air conditioner Control’ and it will check the module. The picture below is after it had cleared transport mode.
- BMW Scaner 1.4 Heating codes 1 25-3-22.PNG (39.82 KiB) Viewed 1918 times
- BMW Scaner 1.4 Heating codes 2 25-3-22.PNG (16.07 KiB) Viewed 1918 times
- BMW Scaner 1.4 Heating codes 3 25-3-22.PNG (25.27 KiB) Viewed 1918 times
- BMW Scaner 1.4 Heating codes 4 25-3-22.PNG (24.24 KiB) Viewed 1918 times
