[Springal]

Hi All,

Sorry for the bump. Just got back from my BMW St..sorry Dealer after getting the ABS icon, and the 3 yellow lights up on the dash 2 days ago. 3 out of 4 times I turn the car on and drive, I get these lights, but 1 out of 4, I don't. I took it in, and paid £65 for them to tell me that the DCS unit was on its way out, and the whole lot needed replacing for a princely sum of £1995 inc VAT.

As I've only had it from them for 18 months (stupidly didn't extend the warranty....) they are going to speak to BMW and see if they can get some goodwill discount from them, not very hopeful though if I chose not to take the warranty.

Seen a few suggest it isn't actually the DCS and possibly a mis-reading, but now sure how to get another opinion on this?

Any help or advice appreciated, as obviously keen not to spend out £2k. I do know a good private BMW technician, but I thought I'd see what BMW come back with first.

Thanks all!

EDIT: Forgot to say, they did say on a lot of E92s, apparently they can replace part of it for much less, but on mine, it is all in 1 unit hence the full £2k....

[Springal]

Update from BMW, they are happy to cover 80% of the parts, meaning this will cost £660. A 'bit' happier with this, but still feeling a bit shafted! Appreciate any thoughts on this.

[ktdalton@hotmail.com]

Does the DCU unit fail on the 316i or is it a fairly common problem with diesels only ?

[Dr Dave]

All E9x cars affected.

[urfankhaliq]

Originally Posted by Springal

Update from BMW, they are happy to cover 80% of the parts, meaning this will cost £660. A 'bit' happier with this, but still feeling a bit shafted! Appreciate any thoughts on this.

I thought there was a hydro pump repair kit for 170ish that can be replaced?
that's what I had done and been fine since!

[Dr Dave]

Indeed there is. Has made the repair much easier to swallow compared to the £1200 replacement unit repair.

[urfankhaliq]

yeh thats what i had done myself. bought the part from dealers, had a local mechanic install it who f**ked it up, ended up taking car back to dealers to fix what he broke! (but thats another story, one that ended up with me going down the small claims route to get my money back!!)

lol

[Nigelo]

I had the same faulty abs unit in my Mazda - I posted info before, but just so no one misses it - I used a company called ecu-testing.com to fix it. £120 to swap the part, and £200 for the company to fix the abs unit. Hopefully that will save someone some cash!

[thebuffnaaz]

Originally Posted by Mud

hearsay??? Alot of people, myself included had the issue and got it sorted with discounts etc etc or after taking them to court in my case.

Sorry to bump an old thread but Im not allowed to send PMs (being a newbie).

Mud, I hope you don't mind, just wanted to ask about the legal route you seem to have taken. Did you represent yourself and did they settle before the hearing?

Any info would be greatly appreciated as I have the amber lights on my 55 plate 320d SE.

Thanks in advance.

[Dino355]

I've had the warning lights on my car. I had the fault codes read and was getting a low voltage battery warning and several steering position sensor warnings. Faults were cleared and I've not had a problem since.

Don't automatically assume your DSC is dead!

[xenon]

Originally Posted by thebuffnaaz

Sorry to bump an old thread but Im not allowed to send PMs (being a newbie).

Mud, I hope you don't mind, just wanted to ask about the legal route you seem to have taken. Did you represent yourself and did they settle before the hearing?

Any info would be greatly appreciated as I have the amber lights on my 55 plate 320d SE.

Thanks in advance.

Do you think you have legal or even moral redress on a 7 year-old car? Good luck but I suspect you're flogging a dead horse there.

[trixman]

I bought the 335d just a few months ago, within 3 weeks I had the dash light up with DSC/ABS lights. Took it in and they diagnosed DSC module failure and had it replaced under warranty. They said it was nearly £1,500 worth at the time (this January) - would have been painful - but just goes to show the extended warranty would be worth it on these kind of cars.

[thebuffnaaz]

Originally Posted by xenon

Do you think you have legal or even moral redress on a 7 year-old car? Good luck but I suspect you're flogging a dead horse there.

Maybe not but there's no harm in asking!

[Menace1]

Hi all
Am after a bit of help. I have the exclamation mark with an anti clockwise arrow and the handbrake light on in my 1 series. I got my car MOT'd last week wednesday and on friday morning these 2 lights came on. Was told that they should go off after a few miles driving but they didn't. Had it plugged in at a friends garage and returned with the code 5e20 pressure centre 1. However, yesterday the light was off in the morning when I went to work. Then when i went out for lunch and started it up it was back on. Rang BMW and they said they thought it may be the ABS unit at a cost of £700+ but couldn't say for sure without plugging in (at a cost of £70!!!) also advised that would need to be done by BMW as it needs programming once the job is done or the light will remain on. (have since been told that this may not be the case(
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this light off? Have just paid for MOT and service this month so could really do without a big cash outlay this month :-(

[Menace1]

^sorry, also meant to say, i've had two new run flat tyres fitted in the last month, don't know whether that could have anything to do with it

[thebuffnaaz]

Hi

Did you get this sorted?

The advice I read is to get a good independent BMW specialist to sort it out (says the girl who is still driving around with the light on - dreading the MOT on Dec!).

Have you tried starting a new thread? Might get some more replies that way?