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Old 12-04-2006, 06:26 AM
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Thanks UCrew, must admit all I'd done was turn the car on, not moved it at all but they did used to go out after a few seconds without having to move?

Will try it tonight, have now booked in with dealership to sort the satnav and mentioned the light too.

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Old 12-04-2006, 08:09 AM
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Can try turning steering wheel all the way to right then left ie full lock both ways.
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Old 12-04-2006, 11:58 AM
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Cheers X5 Sport, will try that too

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Old 12-04-2006, 06:00 PM
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Any Luck Kismet?

If you are stuck welcome to try my version 28 I work in Harrow if you want to come over pick it up
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Old 12-05-2006, 07:07 AM
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Hi

Didn't get a chance last night 'cos of late finish at work and watching Watford grab a point at Man City on SKY

Am going to try the steering wheel lock to lock and drive it for a few minutes to see if that clears the lights on the dash.

On the satnav front, thanks for your kind offer but I've booked it into the $tealers for Thursday. Told them an attempt to upgrade went wrong, guy said they should be able to sort it so fingers crossed

Thanks again

ALI
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Old 12-05-2006, 04:19 PM
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Hey Kissmet110

The lights WILL go out when you drive the car , to get you MK-IV to work again you meybe have to inset the V24.1 softwear opload to get it start up. , then you can tray opgrading to V28 again.

I know this from my own MK-IV , when it goes "dead" under opgrading.

Dont worry it will all be good again
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Old 12-06-2006, 06:38 AM
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Thanks all, drove it for a few minutes last night and the lights did go out so that's one thing fixed

Benno - will bear that in mind for the future, booked into $tealers for sat-nav f/ware upgrade/re-initialisation tomorrow so will see what they say.

After my recent bad luck with firmware upgrades I'm loathe to try anything else at the moment

Cheers all, will let you know how it goes.

ALI
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Old 12-08-2006, 06:52 AM
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FURTHER UPDATE

I really must relay this to you, it'll make you smile/cry. After getting the car to the $tealers yesterday morning I got a call 7 hours later from a woman stating "the unit is faulty, we can order another for you - £1,000 please".

I patiently explained to her that the unit is NOT faulty, a botched attempt at a firmware upgrade has left it unusable but the issue is NOT a hardware one. She responded that their 'diagnostics' had detected all fuses are OK, all wiring is intact BUT the unit is from an E39, therefore faulty - £1,000 please.

I told her that the Sat-Nav units are interchangeable, that her insistence that it's faulty is akin to me telling her her PC needs replacing because MS Word wasn't correctly installed (was going to give her the example of flashing the BIOS but that would be too confusing so kept it simple).

She then said "I'll speak to xxxxx and get back to you". So far nothing but I did tell her before she got off the 'phone that I was not impressed with their 'diagnosis' and poor service; if it'd been someone who didn't know better then a lot of money would be changing hands because of their lazy fault-finding technique.

I'll keep you all posted as to what happens but have already put in a bid for a new unit on eBay. If I can revive my one myself (get the strong feeling the $tealers won't) then the surplus one will go back on eBay, if not then still far better than paying over £1,000 + VAT :-O

ALI
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Old 12-08-2006, 07:21 AM
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If you cannot get the unit working again PM me as I know a ICE cent. in the northwest that has recovered some seriously fudged Navi units in the past.
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Old 12-08-2006, 07:50 AM
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Thanks for that pagibbo, will definitely be in contact if, as I suspect, the $tealers get nowhere aside from trying to prise lots of money out of me.

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