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Old 03-22-2022, 10:42 AM
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Activated "Trim Line Mode" help please.

I have kept noticing recently that when parked on level ground that my E53 looks a little lower on the left rear.

Last year I had some hassle with rear sensors and replaced them and never looked into calibration, something I read needed to be done. So had some spare time today and ran INPA to see what was possible in terms of setting up the level. Instead of that I have activated "trim line mode" and I am unable to unactivate it now.

What is Trim line mode? I have googled it and mainly comes up with links to "Transport mode", I have seen this ans in the same sub menu as trim line mode. Currently I have Trim line mode showing a black dot and Transport mode showing a white spot, so ppresumably only trim line mode is active at present.

I was thinking like most other functions in INPA it would be a toggle of the same F key but seems not. Telling me to wait at least an hour, do I need to wait ans try to disable it again? Any help apreciated, thanks.

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Old 03-22-2022, 02:04 PM
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Just to follow up on this, I went back to it and drilled a little deeper into the menu options within the ehc section and found a "disable trim mode" option, so whatever it does it's now disabled.

Whilst there I discovered the hand adjust menu and thought this is where I needed to be to get her level, although I can address each corner and make it move up and down, I am not sure its behaving as it should. raising the left rear by 10mm also seems to raise the right by around the same.

Is there a guide anywhere to help with this? A bit of searching suggests INPA isn't up to height setting which seems a bit odd as it definitely seems to be able to address the air bags.

I need to replace the subframe bushes soon and can't help thinking that it may be worth putting springs on the back and losing the air, but not sure I want to live with an error message popping up everytime I use the car as I understand its not easy to lose that message once the conversion is done.

Any pointers would be great, thanks in advance.
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Old 03-23-2022, 04:01 PM
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Not sure if INPA is capable of ride height adjustments, though I imagine it would be. See if there is a "calibration" or "adjustment" option for the EHC module.

It takes use of NCSexpert to clear the susp. inactive warnings. You can disable the check control message fairly easily but clearing the DSC errors required programming ZCS and telling the DSC that it was in a vehicle that did not have air. In my case an N62 4.4i w/o 4 corner as I have a 4.8is.
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