09 4.8i left airbag suspension problem.
 

After waiting a month for my x5 to get here I had to get it inspected today before i could insure it. It failed because of a bad left airbag.

You can definitly feel it when it is driving. My question is, the car was sitting for a few months before it was shipped and then for a month getting ready to be shipped could this be just because of a low battery or something? Could I do a reset or something?

I have an appointment this week at bmw but if I can't get it working i'll have to tow the car in as i have no insurance. There are no faults or anything on the dash. I'm wondering if I could just reset it somehow to check if that gets a sensor going again? Then at least I could get it inspected and insured. (the inspection place is right next to my house)

Thanks a lot

2009 bmw x5 with m sport pack and air suspension

I think I've come to the conclusion that most likely the level sensor is reading incorrectly. If the airbag was blown, or the compressor not working, or some other variation of this surely a warning would pop up. So all I can think is that the system believes it is correct, and the sensors is there for reading incorrectly what is level.

Question is, is it possible to disconnect the battery for 10 minutes or something on this car and reconnect to see if the sensor automatically re-calibrates? It is something I would just like to try but i remember reading somewhere that you can't just disconnect or change your battery on these cars without causing problems

Did you buy a broken car? Sight unseen???

Bring it to the dealer, tell them to diagnose it, tell the seller to pay to fix it.

You can try and disconnect the battery, but IMO the fix may wind up being a pair of rear actuators- $5-6000. A few posts on this, user BGM maybe?

I'm not sure if I did or if it broke during shipping or what? I'm from canada, it came from a big dealership in the states and is still under warranty so I wasn't too worried. The car came exactly as was stated except that now it seems to be hunching over. Either way I disconnected battery and it did nothing so I will take it into the dealership tomorrow. I just looked at all the pictures I was sent before it was shipped and it was not leaning like this then... I don't even know if it was like this when I received it. I think it might have happened during the inspection, maybe they hooked it up to the computer and did something funky too it.