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Originally Posted by FBMWWINS
They just indicate a generic fault but we do not see the actual fault code returned by their short test. Based on that code, the BMW technician dealing with the car should know what to do next especially after querying ISTA D (the official BMW diagnostic software) for a service plan. At least that is the standard procedure. So my "guess" is if they officially advised on programming, they found no hardware issues (the ECU should thus be fine) but rather a software related bug as we commonly know them outside of the car world too. |
Agreed, i.e., without a specific fault code mentioned they are just falling back on the Windows ctrl-alt-del solution but in this case that's reprogramming. Software bugs can be significant or innocuous and in this case it just might be the latter producing the "vehicle will shutdown soon" message.