Idrive display repeatedly opens & closes
- Thread starter Murgins
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Scottish Borders
Usually it’s an issue with communication with the rest of the audio / nav system…
It can be a faulty unit…
In my case it was damp obstructing the optical connector in the MOST network..
Usually if yiou run the car for say 2 hours if it stabilises it’s that MOST type issue , if after it’s still resetting then it’s probably the idrive unit..
As usual a decent fault code reader is your first port of call…
It can be a faulty unit…
In my case it was damp obstructing the optical connector in the MOST network..
Usually if yiou run the car for say 2 hours if it stabilises it’s that MOST type issue , if after it’s still resetting then it’s probably the idrive unit..
As usual a decent fault code reader is your first port of call…
I brought the car to BMW today for an old recall to the "Program Control Unit". I'm hoping that any upgrade done to the idrive will miraculously solve the problem. But just in case, if I disable the idrive display by means of locating the fuse...will the car still be driveable with everything else working? If so, which is the correct fuse? Cheers
First off, I’d like to thank you for your help. Got the car back from the recall work at BMW and no change. I removed the #76 fuse so the display doesn’t go up and down but the radio continues to go on and off every 20 seconds. I’d like to pull the fuse for that. The fuse info card shows 7 fuse numbers for the radio, which one is correct? Cheers
Arr, right so it's your headunit turning on and off which is activating the screen. So nothing wrong with the screen then.
Sounds like the control circuit within the headunit is faulty. There are people who advertise on eBay that say they can repair headunits, but it's not cheap, possibly a good idea to contact one of these and see what they say. Just replacing the headunit though would be quicker but probably a lot more expensive, you're looking at around the £500 (if you can find one) and around another £100 to get it coded to your car, whereas these eBay guys charge around £350 to repair your existing one (depending on fault I'd assume).
Another option would be to see if someone would be willing just to swap over their headunit to see if that solved the problem, at least this way it would confirm what I'm suggesting.
Sounds like the control circuit within the headunit is faulty. There are people who advertise on eBay that say they can repair headunits, but it's not cheap, possibly a good idea to contact one of these and see what they say. Just replacing the headunit though would be quicker but probably a lot more expensive, you're looking at around the £500 (if you can find one) and around another £100 to get it coded to your car, whereas these eBay guys charge around £350 to repair your existing one (depending on fault I'd assume).
Another option would be to see if someone would be willing just to swap over their headunit to see if that solved the problem, at least this way it would confirm what I'm suggesting.
