Intermittent Dead Ignition - Advice please

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Leystan

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 South Coast
Hi All

Wondered if anyone else had had this problem...? In the last couple of weeks My 06 Coupe has twice refused to turn over at all when trying to start her...nothing...completely dead. Both times removal of key, wait a minute or so, try again, has solved it. But i'm worried it might get worse and refuse to 'reset'. It has demonstrated one or two other weird electric traits but nothing more than once, e.g. the speedo needle died briefly once months ago.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar and/or have any advice re what i should or shouldn't do?

Fingers crossed someone can help...
 
I had this problem nothing happened apart from a few lights coming on the instrument cluster. It happened 10 times in a row on one occassion, at that point I thought I needed to get it looked at. BMW had it for about a week and struggled to find what the problem was. In the end it turned out to be the ignition switch, which someone on hear suggested right from the start. So get them looking there first. Good luck.
 
jamiecarpenter said:
I had this problem nothing happened apart from a few lights coming on the instrument cluster. It happened 10 times in a row on one occassion, at that point I thought I needed to get it looked at. BMW had it for about a week and struggled to find what the problem was. In the end it turned out to be the ignition switch, which someone on hear suggested right from the start. So get them looking there first. Good luck.
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Expensive?
 
jamiecarpenter said:
I had this problem nothing happened apart from a few lights coming on the instrument cluster. It happened 10 times in a row on one occassion, at that point I thought I needed to get it looked at. BMW had it for about a week and struggled to find what the problem was. In the end it turned out to be the ignition switch, which someone on hear suggested right from the start. So get them looking there first. Good luck.
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I would have suggested the saame thing but haven't heard of it on the Zed before....but on the Nissan 4x4s I run its quite common for the contacts on the ignition switch to eventually burn out and prevent starting.....not sure if it would work here, but on the Nissan, you can still start for a while by turning the key very very slowly which helps it to pick up an unburnt piece of contact sometimes (as well as proving the fault).

The fix is to replace just the backplate.

But as I say, not something I've heard of happening on a beemer, let alone a Zed, but who knows.....and lord knows how you'd get at the back of the switch easily.
 
Ive had this EXACT same issue and the car is at the dealers now for a related not not this same issue - engine turns but doesnt start infrequently.

I should tell them about this and mention the ignition switch :)
 
jamiez said:
Ive had this EXACT same issue and the car is at the dealers now for a related not not this same issue - engine turns but doesnt start infrequently.

I should tell them about this and mention the ignition switch :)
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Jamie I think this must be a different problem, the OP's car won't even turn over.
 
Update from me - i mentioned about the ignition switch to the tech who was working on my car and he took my comments on board but said he would continue investigating the pressure of the high pressure fuel pump as he feel this is the issue.

Had a call today to say they are replaceing the ignition switch :)
 
I actually hope they are.
Im not one bit knocking their investigation ability - just sometimes, we can actually help them along with well founded advise from many existing owners
 
Some technicians can do your head in, I recently had the same on the wife’s nearly new Citroen, I know jack' about the specifics of makes, but basic principles had to suggest that the first thing to examine if a switch works intermittently is the integrity of the power source then the switch, and work through from there. But despite that suggestion from the off they went through just about everything else first, then announced it was the switch! :headbang:

I'm guessing your tech' was being led by the infamous fault codes, which are likely to be b******s if you have current issues anyway.

But glad it's being sorted.
 
jamiez said:
Update from me - i mentioned about the ignition switch to the tech who was working on my car and he took my comments on board but said he would continue investigating the pressure of the high pressure fuel pump as he feel this is the issue.

Had a call today to say they are replaceing the ignition switch :)
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Oh god its so stressful being right all the time :headbang: :rofl:
 
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