745i Electric seat repairs

[bmfreak]

Good Day Fantastic Fanatics.

I am looking for the electronics wizards for the electric seats and
few other niggles I might encounter.:bangdesk:[/font]

I am in Bothasig, but the Western Cape is my oyster. :joy:

Short of going to the dealers that is... :flyfun:

I thank you... :ty:

bmfreak

 

[Peter@AEW]

Good Day Fantastic Fanatics.

I am looking for the electronics wizards for the electric seats and
few other niggles I might encounter.:bangdesk:[/font]

I am in Bothasig, but the Western Cape is my oyster. :joy:

Short of going to the dealers that is... :flyfun:

I thank you... :ty:

bmfreak

Rick540 send him a pm.

 

[bmfreak]

Good Day Fantastic Fanatics.

I am looking for the electronics wizards for the electric seats and
few other niggles I might encounter.:bangdesk:[/font]

I am in Bothasig, but the Western Cape is my oyster. :joy:

Short of going to the dealers that is... :flyfun:

I thank you... :ty:

bmfreak

Rick540 send him a pm.

Appreciate it thank you a1exander... :thumbs:

 

[zaleonardz]

Whats up with the seat,

Explain the problem a bit better, and I will try and see if I can help.

 

[bmfreak]

Thank you.

It was moved back to the rear at the furthest point, now she wont slide more than an inch or so forward, all the other directions work.

Also, the airbag light shows as erronous.

I looked down the sides for blockage but cant see any, it does not spinup as if the motor is slipping a gear neither.

That's about it lest you have plugs for me to disable and re-enable?

Thank you.

 

[Hugo_za]

Hey bud,

Re the airbag light, almost E6x (5-er, 6-er, 7-er) series cars had problems with the airbag and seat occupancy systems. I was lucky enough being able to sort mine out with coding while keeping the warnings and occupancy detected, but in general it involves either replacing the mats or disabling the warning systems. There are 100s of threads about this online, but no-one knows for sure what the real impact is when disabling the warnings.

A common problem on these cars is phantom errors which are generated when the battery is unable to sufficiently power all the modules and electronics. In some cases a new battery solves many headaches.

With the seats, the first option would be to hook the car up to INPA and check if the seat modules are throwing any codes. From INPA you can also actuate the motors, thereby checking if the problem lies in the seat switches mounted on the central console.