BMW 5 Series E39 Light Problem
If any individual owns a BMW 5 Series E39 model they could have this fault. A fault in the headlights tends to look someplace inside of the design a long time of 1998 and 1999. It appears to be to be a dilemma with the offside major beam headlight permanently keeping on whether or not you have the ignition on or off and the headlight change in the thoroughly off placement.
When this fault happened to me, I experienced the lights on for a short though and when I pulled up and went to change the lights off all over again I identified the key beam just would not go off. I went into the property the place I had to go and do a position, but when I returned to the car about 10 minutes afterwards the battery was presently flat. After contacting the breakdown assistance out, the gentleman restarted the car or truck and immediately after substantially tutting just explained “yeah effectively its a BM mate it could be just about anything but its in all probability just a relay or something that is stuck on”. As a quick evaluate I took the bulb out to get me household and mulled around the puzzle all night.
The up coming morning I made the decision it had to be a relay that was at fault so I hunted all-around the automobile hunting for relays for the lights. I checked the handbook for the spot of it. I took panels off listed here and there,I removed practically just about every fuse and relay I could discover, pulled them all out and set them again in once more. And guess what the light would nonetheless not go off. So I started off hunting on the world-wide-web for responses. I visited most of the BMW community forums I could uncover and discovered a couple of owners that seemed to have the exact same issue. Some of the responses that came back have been very similar, some individuals explained it experienced to be a relay, a person advised eliminating the battery for 10 minutes, then reconnecting it yet again and it ought to all reset alone again and every thing must be Alright. I tried using the battery idea but that failed to perform either. So over the future week or so I went back again to the web all over again and ultimately someone stated they experienced attempted those points and then sooner or later gave up and took their vehicle to a BMW supplier.Soon after parting with a wad of hard cash to fork out BMW for their solutions, BMW stated there are no relays to control the lights and the lights are all controlled by the “LCM”.
Now the “LCM” is the light command module that controls all the lights. If this LCM fails you just have to switch it. Basic! Apart from the LCM is only a BMW primary vendor aspect, and the value, about £200. At that time £200 was not rather an selection for my pocket, so I drove about the subsequent number of months with the bulb still disconnected. Then MOT working day started out to loom and there was nonetheless no pocket revenue to buy the LCM. So I rang my cousin in desperation to talk to if he had any strategies of how to get the car or truck by way of the MOT?
He explained to me “why you should not you slice the favourable wire from the offending light-weight, then operate a new wire from the other gentle that is doing work to it so they both of those run off the identical supply. What a good notion! So I did accurately what he recommended. The car or truck sailed by means of the MOT and a further more 6 months down the line it is nevertheless performing to this working day. Which is just as well simply because the £200 is still not there.
