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Originally Posted by kado1976
Ok my FOB stopped working this week to lock and unlock the vehicle so I was using the physical key in the barrel, well that also gave out so I had no way of getting in the vehicle (Stupid Engineering if you ask me).
So I called AAA.
The roadside assistance guy was able to open the door using a bladder and bendable rod. He pushed the center console button for the locks then used it to grab the handle from the inside and the passenger door opened. But now I the center console master lock switch isn't responding. After he just literally pushed it. I can't unlock the driver door from inside either using the handle. I can pull the knob all the way up but it quickly sort he back down. Any ideas?
Im pretty confident the door lock actuator on the driver side is bad, but why wont the center console switch work now? Is there some alarm mode engaged? I have no idea what to do.
I cant lock my X5, Now cant open the driver door, I have to crawl over my passenger seat.
Please anyone? I know the obvious answer of taking it to a dealer or shop. But I dont have the funds to spend $1000 to fix somehting like this
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If you don't have the funds to fix the BMW, perhaps buying such a high end car with its fancy dodad security system wasn't the right move.
You could have used your second key to disarm the alarm and enter the X. What, you don't have a second key? Why, doesn't this surprise me. A word of advice get a second key this way you will have a working FOB to open and lock the X as well as arm and disarm the alarm. You can send in your FOB with the dead battery to have the battery replace. Another word of advice, don't go on youtube to look at videos on how to replace the battery in the FOB. Like brain surgery, if you don't know what you are doing you will end up killing the key.
