Cant reset Inspection light on dash

Post Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:33 pm

I've got one of those reset tools which works fine on my car, but on the other Tourer i'm doing up, it wont reset the Inspection light on the dash.

Is this a sign of the battery on the board dying or am i missing something else??

Post Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:46 pm

Pretty sure it's the SI board, had the same problem with my touring, replaced the SI board with one out of my breaker (brand new one fitted a year ago from Munichs

) and all is fine now!

Post Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:45 pm

ok if u wait till the light goes out on the tool , then b4 turning it off or takeing it off wait 5 seconds more and same with the other light . eg . oil / service

i had trouble too

did it for a long time and it worked !

Post Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:21 am

It could also be the battery on the SI board, simple to replace, i would try that before replaceing the board.

mrlee

Post Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:15 am

Simon wrote:Pretty sure it's the SI board, had the same problem with my touring, replaced the SI board with one out of my breaker (brand new one fitted a year ago from Munichs ) and all is fine now!

Simon, how much is a new one?

Post Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:02 pm

psychochild187 wrote:ok if u wait till the light goes out on the tool , then b4 turning it off or takeing it off wait 5 seconds more and same with the other light . eg . oil / service

i had trouble too

did it for a long time and it worked !

Thanks for this suggestion - tried it today - for a good 5 minutes but it still didn't go out. Looks like i need to get into the dash and replace either the board or the battery.

MrLee - you say this is easy - what's the process?

Post Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:48 am

Here's some instructions on battery replacement although I've never tried it myself.

http://www.pelicanparts.com/BMW/techart ... teries.htm

Post Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:33 pm

Excellent - many thanks RevBillyG - i'll have a good read of that and try it out next weekend.

Post Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:04 pm

willow wrote:
Simon wrote:Pretty sure it's the SI board, had the same problem with my touring, replaced the SI board with one out of my breaker (brand new one fitted a year ago from Munichs ) and all is fine now!
Simon, how much is a new one?

The receipt total for the job is Ãƒ”šÃ‚£312.

Post Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:35 pm

Simon wrote:The receipt total for the job is Ãƒ”šÃ‚£312.

Holy cr*p! I won't be getting one of them them

Post Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:07 pm

like your answer m8,thinking along those lines myself,LOL

Post Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:31 pm

i dont know how old your car is but check that if its not a later car they dont have re-chargeable batteries but lithium ones so strip it and see first, the lithium ones are available but not as easy to source the old ni-cads are available almost anywhere but it is an easy job to do the soldering can be a bit tricky