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Originally Posted by ard (Post 1174981)

YOU said ‘the only thing new is E18F’.... now you are changing the story?

Good luck....

What? How did I change my story? Explain how I changed my story?

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Originally Posted by divinchi (Post 1174897)

The battery is 5 months old, no issues, I will check for water when I am out of work and update you. It just started happening 5 days ago and at first I thought it was the screen until this morning when it was working well until I turned off the headlights. .

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Originally Posted by divinchi (Post 1174897)

The only thing new that I've noticed is that I now have a E18F code and from my research am not able to find out what that means. .

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Originally Posted by divinchi (Post 1174897)

Okay, so I can't figure out what is causing the flickering. The Error I am getting is due to a new MULF I installed but the flickering was happening before I installed that unit. So the error has nothing to do with the flickering..

Here is the problem with many posters...

YOU know what is going on with your car, but we do not. Posters think they can post as if we are sitting next to you- that we will undersand the arrangement of reality that you are seeing. We cannot. Posters will refer to 'this' 'that' 'it' etc as if they all have singular meanings. to them they do, to us it is confusing.

Read your posts. You told us you have a new issue and "the only thing you noticed is a new code'. But then the code is old and due to a module you installed. (If you are such a BMW genius that you can with 100% certainty state the code is only due to the module, you are way ahead of us here....)

Im not trying to be a dick. The more effort you put into making posts read with no confusion and uncertainty,. the better off you are. Also, leaing out history and issues that YOU think are unrelated can make this all a fools errand

:thumbup:

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Originally Posted by ard (Post 1175021)

I will not question if you're being a dick or not. How I am writing and posting is based on my first post which stated the problem I was having. If I have to break down slowly and carefully for those who are unable to keep up with what I had posted that's not my fault.

When I mentioned the only new code it was because at the time it was the only new code, then when I had taken my car in to get checked I was told that it was the MULF. So maybe I needed to say that to not confuse people like yourself who are trying their hardest to not be dicks. And I guess even with me writing that I had the code after the fact wasn't enough.

My suggestion, which I will offer because I know you're trying to help, is to help or not help at all if you get frustrated due to not everyone having your perfect intellectually skilled mind set.

Thank you for your help regardless...

Found the problem

Thanks to a fellow X5 owner from Canada, we figured out what the problem was. The screen brightness was turned up all the way and for some reason that was affecting the screen and creating flickering. Once the brightness was turned down to halfway, everything was fixed and working well again... Thank to everyone who helped out.