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Ok, so where to start. A couple of months ago I was driving from Durban to JHB, nice gentle cruise, in my M6. The drive down to Durban a couple days before had been absolutely fine, no issues, even decent consumption. Drove around Durban for a couple of days, again, no issues.
On my way back from Durban, just outside Warden, I get the fright of my life. About 5 errors consecutively flash on my HUD. In random order:
1.DSC Failure
2.EDC Failure
3.Tyre Pressure Monitor Failure
4.Start Assist Failure (this is just the hill start assist that prevents the car from rolling on an incline)
5.SMG Failure (no red cog)
6.Windscreen washer low :rollsmile:
These happen all at the same time, but the car still drives fine, no limp mode, no physical signs of stopping, nothing. Just carries on. But as you can probably imagine, I crapped myself.
I have a Bluetooth diagnostic dongle in my OBD port, and software on my phone. I pulled over, switched the car off, left it for a couple of minutes, restarted and it flashed all the errors again. I turned it off again, ran a diagnostic scan on the car, and it came up with all of the above. I cleared the faults, and they all went (except the EDC or Dynamic Driving Control and the windscreen washer :rollsmile
. I then noticed, that the EDC button was not illuminated anymore. I always drive my car in the Sports setting, because I enjoy the stiffer suspension and the handling dynamics when in that setting. It stays on by default when you select it, so every time you switch the car off, it comes on automatically when you restart. I then manually put it into Sport, and the car felt fine.
I carried on my trip without further incident, until I got to Heidelburg, when it happened again. I was relatively close to home (I stay in Fourways) and wasn't going to pull over on the side of the road. I stopped at the Total along that stretch of freeway, because I had to put petrol in,cleared the faults, and carried on. When I got home, there were no more errors, until I was getting out, and it flashed the damper image with an exclamation mark on the DIS on the dashboard. I ran diagnostics again, to see if it was a fault I could clear, but this one persisted.
So it's been a couple of months now, and only once since have I had all the errors thrown at me. However, this one is the one that won't clear:
Chassis:
Electronic damper / Elektronische Daempfer
Fehler: maximum steering angle correction value exceeded
Code: 5FE1
I've done some research on the net, trying to find a reasonable explanation. M5Board.com is very useful it would seem. But not very concise in what the actual fault is. It seems that it could be anything from an alternator, to a battery, to an EDCK module, to an actuator (I have discounted this because the car doesn't go into Limp Mode), to a steering angle sensor. Now, as you can imagine, these are not exactly cheap parts. Guys are talking about parts being anything from $300 to $3000 to replace. From the experienced technical guys on here, where do you recommend I start? I am thinking of the steering angle sensor (SZL), which apparently can be cleaned. My steering wheel does sit at a slight angle due to my alignment issue,and the fact I have really crappy tyres on the front.
I know my wheel alignment is badly out, due to some unseen damage on the rear subframe by the previous owner, where it seems a power slide came to a grinding halt after being introduced to a kerb. Most of these are DIY, except perhaps the alternator and the actuators, but before I go diving in and start pulling things apart, where would the most logical place be to start? The SZL? There is a full DIY thread on how to do it, and it's insane but definitely doable. From the stuff I've read, it could be something simple, and it seems that dealers just go on what the diagnostics say,rather than actually investigating the problem thoroughly,so I don't want to get them involved until I absolutely have to or need to.
Any feedback is welcome!
On my way back from Durban, just outside Warden, I get the fright of my life. About 5 errors consecutively flash on my HUD. In random order:
1.DSC Failure
2.EDC Failure
3.Tyre Pressure Monitor Failure
4.Start Assist Failure (this is just the hill start assist that prevents the car from rolling on an incline)
5.SMG Failure (no red cog)
6.Windscreen washer low :rollsmile:
These happen all at the same time, but the car still drives fine, no limp mode, no physical signs of stopping, nothing. Just carries on. But as you can probably imagine, I crapped myself.
I have a Bluetooth diagnostic dongle in my OBD port, and software on my phone. I pulled over, switched the car off, left it for a couple of minutes, restarted and it flashed all the errors again. I turned it off again, ran a diagnostic scan on the car, and it came up with all of the above. I cleared the faults, and they all went (except the EDC or Dynamic Driving Control and the windscreen washer :rollsmile
. I then noticed, that the EDC button was not illuminated anymore. I always drive my car in the Sports setting, because I enjoy the stiffer suspension and the handling dynamics when in that setting. It stays on by default when you select it, so every time you switch the car off, it comes on automatically when you restart. I then manually put it into Sport, and the car felt fine.I carried on my trip without further incident, until I got to Heidelburg, when it happened again. I was relatively close to home (I stay in Fourways) and wasn't going to pull over on the side of the road. I stopped at the Total along that stretch of freeway, because I had to put petrol in,cleared the faults, and carried on. When I got home, there were no more errors, until I was getting out, and it flashed the damper image with an exclamation mark on the DIS on the dashboard. I ran diagnostics again, to see if it was a fault I could clear, but this one persisted.
So it's been a couple of months now, and only once since have I had all the errors thrown at me. However, this one is the one that won't clear:
Chassis:
Electronic damper / Elektronische Daempfer
Fehler: maximum steering angle correction value exceeded
Code: 5FE1
I've done some research on the net, trying to find a reasonable explanation. M5Board.com is very useful it would seem. But not very concise in what the actual fault is. It seems that it could be anything from an alternator, to a battery, to an EDCK module, to an actuator (I have discounted this because the car doesn't go into Limp Mode), to a steering angle sensor. Now, as you can imagine, these are not exactly cheap parts. Guys are talking about parts being anything from $300 to $3000 to replace. From the experienced technical guys on here, where do you recommend I start? I am thinking of the steering angle sensor (SZL), which apparently can be cleaned. My steering wheel does sit at a slight angle due to my alignment issue,and the fact I have really crappy tyres on the front.
I know my wheel alignment is badly out, due to some unseen damage on the rear subframe by the previous owner, where it seems a power slide came to a grinding halt after being introduced to a kerb. Most of these are DIY, except perhaps the alternator and the actuators, but before I go diving in and start pulling things apart, where would the most logical place be to start? The SZL? There is a full DIY thread on how to do it, and it's insane but definitely doable. From the stuff I've read, it could be something simple, and it seems that dealers just go on what the diagnostics say,rather than actually investigating the problem thoroughly,so I don't want to get them involved until I absolutely have to or need to.
Any feedback is welcome!
