What a great response. As I am new to the group it is great to get such a friendly welcome - thanks. And thank for the comments. By sheer fluke I have solved the problem. The Sat Nav uses a 2001 nav disk for UK. A buddy of mine just bought the new updated versions from NavTec and as a favour copied the disk. He borowed the car and swapped the disks for me, thining he was doing me a favour, forgetting to tell me he'd done it. By chance I removed the disk, saw what he had done, replaced the old one and hey presto no more problems.

Does anyone know if BMW have an up to date map disk for my version and how do I check which version I have to tell them? Any thoughts would be v welcome cos they keep moving the piggin roads in UK and "Doris" gets a bit confused!!

FYI: I just bought Topaz Blue 4.4 Sport fully loader with all the toys to keep me occupied when I'm sitting on the M25 doing 1 mile a hour!! What an amazing motor. I gotta watch it though cos I can't resist squeezing the loud pedal.

I'm thinking of LPG converting it as I have had LPG converted cars for 10 years now. I know it can be done but would welcome anybodys views/advice etc

Thanks again
Peter - jetlag