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07-19-2005, 12:32 AM | #1 |
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Low Battery Light
Someone that has the answer please reply with it!
Tonight I was @ a drive-in. As most know the sound is played through the car radio. When I got to the theater I push stop button to turn car off. I removed the remote & reinserted it without pushing the button. I also was sure to turn lights off from auto mode. All was fine for apprx. 1 hour of the movie when radio shut off. Low battery light came on in center of dash & @ bottom of navi. I tryed everything & would only last few minutes when radio kept shutting off. I could not start the car because of the stupid day time running lights! Long story short I had to leave the theater to not risk getting stuck. Meanwhile: I'm out the $14.00 & never got to see the movies! Why couldn't BMW just put a key to turn to Accessory and all be great! There has to be simple answer to this...please do tell it |
07-19-2005, 06:57 AM | #2 |
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I think if you turn the car off - don't remove the key and then open the drivers door it should work...I'm not sure though, because I have CA so the software on my car is different!
Also, don't the DRL's only work when the lights are set to auto? |
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07-19-2005, 09:55 AM | #3 |
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You can take out the remote when you stop the car, and then press the start button by itself (no remote) and it will allow you to listen to the radio. I am not sure how long the radio stays on this way though.
Was perhaps your AC or climate control was on while you were listening to the movie. This may drain the battery faster. |
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07-19-2005, 10:56 PM | #4 | |
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I'm pretty sure air was off? no lights were on & I did not feel it on. I'm beginning to think something is wrong with my battery or needs larger battery? |
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07-19-2005, 11:01 PM | #5 | |
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DRL's come on soon as u start car which is what I don't want it to do. I needed to run car because battery kept running low. Could not do so as DRL would come on & others would be pissed. Really sad I paid $49,000 for my car & I have to borrow a friends used junk to go to Drive-In tomorrow night. At least theater is letting me see movies for free & I'm not out my $. |
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07-19-2005, 11:02 PM | #6 |
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That's pretty bad. If you are in the same situation again (if you dare try it again), I would turn the iDrive screen off to conserve the battery.
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07-19-2005, 11:09 PM | #7 | |
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Infact: I turned it off before battery light came on. Was distracting trying to watch movie & seeing radio station on screen. Dealer tells me today to put remote in slot, foot on brake & push start button Guess they know less about car then I do |
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07-19-2005, 11:12 PM | #8 |
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Bummer! That's a real problem with DRL. BTW, I think it makes sense that DRL is not user-controllable. In many countries DRL is required and thus the driver is not supposed to be able to turn it off.
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07-20-2005, 07:41 PM | #9 |
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I went to dealer today & they are as stumped as I am.
They are contacting head guy @ BMW & see what he comes up with? For now they told me to put a rag (towel) over the DRL's. Going to Drive-In tonight & doing just that. Rag over the lights |
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07-20-2005, 10:58 PM | #12 |
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I haven't got my 325 yet, but my two cars do the same thing and I believe it should be same in E90. One of my car will turn off the DRL as long as I pull the hand break and it turn on when I release the hand break. The other car will turn off the DRL when I have the hand break set and start the engine and turn on after the hand break release but it won't turn off after that.
I believe only the hand break can tell the car you will not move |
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07-21-2005, 01:19 AM | #13 |
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The battery issue is nothing new. This goes back to at least the 80s. BMW is notorious for having weak batteries. Add in all these new fangled electric systems and...
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07-21-2005, 01:40 AM | #18 |
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Well I went to see "Wedding Crashers + War of the Worlds".
BMW dealer suggestion of covering the DRL's with rags did the trick Whole time watching movies I kept waiting for the rags to catch fire |
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07-21-2005, 02:54 AM | #19 | |
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07-21-2005, 05:55 PM | #20 |
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I'm having the same problem with the low battery light. If I turn the car off with the headlamps on auto, they switch to parking lamps until the drivers' door is opened. If I'm waiting in the car listening to the radio, within a few minutes the battery light comes on, even if there are no parking or headlights on. You should be able to run the radio for hours before it significantly drains the battery!
The dealership claims to have tested the charging system and battery and found nothing abnormal. They also couldn't reproduce the spring noise in the drivers' door and found nothing wrong with the chattering wipers. |
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07-22-2005, 03:30 AM | #21 | |
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07-22-2005, 11:10 AM | #22 | |
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I clicked in the I-Drive button and went to display settings and clicked "turn display off" But the screen still appeared to be ON just not showing anything (if that makes sense) When I say on, it looks like your TV would look when you are on INPUT mode but your input (dvd, xbox, etc) is not on. |
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