It's been one of those car days.
Firstly, 5 minutes into my normal journey to work, the Z4M decided to malfunction. I'm still not sure now of the cause so if anyone has any input I'd greatly appreciate it, particularly as it's the most disconcerting issue I've faced in my 10 years of driving.
Essentially the car appeared to reboot, while driving. The dashboard looked similar to when I start the car, this in itself wouldn't have bothered me greatly. What did take me by surprise was that my power steering went too, either that or the steering lock engaged. Fortunately I was doing 20mph in a small village and someone's empty driveway offered a run-off area. Years of problem solving told me to turn it off and on again and sure enough everything came back fine. I regret this now as it's limited my ability to properly evaluate what went wrong. I have no idea if the throttle still worked, if the steering truly did lock out or exactly what lights were on (although fairly sure it was the emissions and stability control). Don't ask me why I carried on with my journey, but I made it to work safely and did some digging on-line.
I couldn't find anything directly related to my issue for this model. But the only electrical hiccup I've had is occasionally the clock/mpg/avg spd. would reset and the dials wouldn't immediately spring into life. I was fairly sure the battery had never been replaced, which gave it 6-7 years of use. Considering the time of year and the demands I put on the car in the morning with heated everything on, the battery is my only logical direction at this time. I've ordered a new one and a voltmeter to check the old one.
I then had to decide whether to drive it home or leave it at work, but considering the battery was being delivered to my home address I knew what I wanted to do. To avoid driving in the dark/school time I left the office at midday after doing laps of the car park.
Obviously I'd made bad karma choices because a mile from my house a skip lorry decided to mount the verge and then corrected massively, launching stones at me just as I was passing. Cue quite a few scuffs on the driver side front bodywork and a wonderful chip with cracks in my windscreen. New one of those comes on Sunday.
TLDR
Drove to work. Car threw me some errors. Steering stopped working while driving. Might be battery related. New battery coming tomorrow. Drove home early. Got hit by hail of stones from skip lorry. New windscreen coming Sunday.
Firstly, 5 minutes into my normal journey to work, the Z4M decided to malfunction. I'm still not sure now of the cause so if anyone has any input I'd greatly appreciate it, particularly as it's the most disconcerting issue I've faced in my 10 years of driving.
Essentially the car appeared to reboot, while driving. The dashboard looked similar to when I start the car, this in itself wouldn't have bothered me greatly. What did take me by surprise was that my power steering went too, either that or the steering lock engaged. Fortunately I was doing 20mph in a small village and someone's empty driveway offered a run-off area. Years of problem solving told me to turn it off and on again and sure enough everything came back fine. I regret this now as it's limited my ability to properly evaluate what went wrong. I have no idea if the throttle still worked, if the steering truly did lock out or exactly what lights were on (although fairly sure it was the emissions and stability control). Don't ask me why I carried on with my journey, but I made it to work safely and did some digging on-line.
I couldn't find anything directly related to my issue for this model. But the only electrical hiccup I've had is occasionally the clock/mpg/avg spd. would reset and the dials wouldn't immediately spring into life. I was fairly sure the battery had never been replaced, which gave it 6-7 years of use. Considering the time of year and the demands I put on the car in the morning with heated everything on, the battery is my only logical direction at this time. I've ordered a new one and a voltmeter to check the old one.
I then had to decide whether to drive it home or leave it at work, but considering the battery was being delivered to my home address I knew what I wanted to do. To avoid driving in the dark/school time I left the office at midday after doing laps of the car park.
Obviously I'd made bad karma choices because a mile from my house a skip lorry decided to mount the verge and then corrected massively, launching stones at me just as I was passing. Cue quite a few scuffs on the driver side front bodywork and a wonderful chip with cracks in my windscreen. New one of those comes on Sunday.
TLDR
Drove to work. Car threw me some errors. Steering stopped working while driving. Might be battery related. New battery coming tomorrow. Drove home early. Got hit by hail of stones from skip lorry. New windscreen coming Sunday.
