I found out with the battery system (as ours is running down from short trips) that the BMW's when in a low battery charge state will start to progressively shut down systems to preserve crank power. Once driving, and alternator is charging systems come back up.

First to go is the clock, and then it can be the active steering, SOS or idrive....all sorts of things....

Just a thought...

Cheers

J

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