E70 Comfort Access Door Handle Errors

[Maruzo]

My driver door's comfort access isn't working. There's a high battery drain every other day, and the left side of the handle near the connector is warm to the touch.

I read up a diy post on xbimmers.com and decided to try it out tonight:

https://www.xbimmers.com/forums/show....php?t=1380037

I swapped the working rear driver's side door handle with the non working driver handle, connected the wire and observed the following:

1. The driver door handle now unlocks when I touch it. But it still doesn't lock when I touch it again.

2. My rear passenger door handle also stopped unlocking by touch now.

The front passenger door handle locks and unlocks by touching the handle.

I unplugged the connector to the defective driver handle which is now on the rear driver side door. I use a dental floss to loosely connect between the door handle wire connector and the wire coming from inside the door so that wire doesn't fall into the bottom of the door after it's been disconnected.

For future purposes, when I am able to source a working comfort access monaco blue door handle again!

I will see in a few days whether the high battery drain has disappeared or not.