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Updates on my updates. Everything was great and then I went and got some new winter tires put on my wheels....car came back with the same spastic light issues. This time I was going to resolve it myself. I went and bought a sensor from Pelican and put it on over the weekend. Drove the car at night and same f'n issue. I was pissed but thought it could be back sensor. The part number is the same so I figured it I would just swap that out.
I jacked up the entire passenger side of the car and took apart the linkages for both sensors to see how the lights respond.
When I would move the back sensor, I would hear the air suspension kick in and the lights would move. The linkage joint was frozen on one side so I lubed that up with WD-40 and got that joint working better. I thought that could be it.
I then moved to the front and found out where the range of the sensor needed to be to move the lights. They moved like the should have.
So with two 'working' sensors, I wanted to watch the lights move as I moved the front passenger suspension up and down with a floor jack (had stands in other spots). They didn't really move at all. I was perplexed but put the tire back on and lowered the car.
I then realized that the sensor arm had to be in the right position to make it work. I looked under the car and saw it was out of alignment and flexed the wrong way. I jacked the car up and flexed the linkage and arm out the other way, putting the sensor back into spec.
So jacking up the car and or putting it on the lift was making the linkage go the wrong way I guess.
Hopefully, I'm not back tomorrow with another update.
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2005 x5 4.4i sport
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