Strange fault (DSC?)

[cusword]

The other day I started off and at about 10mph in my auto 2004 Z4 having selected Drive. The car started to jump/jerk with the engine revs going up and down. The DSC light was on. I selected reverse and 'hopped' backwards back down the road and onto my drive.....car still hopping. I switch off, and restarted, and it was fine. I took another car to work.

I have done a few short drives since and it has been fine. Just once I think I caught a flash of the DSC warning light on, after start up.

I should also say occasionally the dreaded gearbox cog light comes on at start up but a restart clears it.

The car has done 55k miles.

Any Ideas on the kangerooing?

David

 

[enuff_zed]

What codes do you have?

 

[bigwinn]

I had similar symptoms on my e46

After changing the rear trailing arm bushes the problem persisted- the next roll of the dice was the ABS sensor which sorted the intermittent issue

 

[enuff_zed]

I had similar symptoms on my e46

After changing the rear trailing arm bushes the problem persisted- the next roll of the dice was the ABS sensor which sorted the intermittent issue

And a decent code reader should tell you which sensor was misbehaving.

 

[cusword]

What codes do you have?

I haven't had the codes read yet.

Thanks David

 

[bigwinn]

To be fair there weren’t any codes- just the DSC cutting in on hard acceleration on a left turn

I know I could have plugged the reader in for live data…

 

[enuff_zed]

To be fair there weren’t any codes- just the DSC cutting in on hard acceleration on a left turn

I know I could have plugged the reader in for live data…

If you used something like scanner 1.4 you would see stores codes too

 

[bigwinn]

To be fair there weren’t any codes- just the DSC cutting in on hard acceleration on a left turn

I know I could have plugged the reader in for live data…

If you used something like scanner 1.4 you would see stores codes too

Good to know

I wish I could get 1.4 working on any of the laptops I have!!!

 

[enuff_zed]

To be fair there weren’t any codes- just the DSC cutting in on hard acceleration on a left turn

I know I could have plugged the reader in for live data…

If you used something like scanner 1.4 you would see stores codes too

Good to know

I wish I could get 1.4 working on any of the laptops I have!!!

I read today that it is temperamental on W10 but works on XP, 7 or 8. Went straight onto my W8.1 no problem.