Hello X5'ers. For those of you like myself who have been plagued with the unpredictable failure of the IDrive screen to come to life when you start your ignition, I may have stumbled upon a possible fix. Usually your Idrive functions are still available, it's just that the screen appears very dark ...

Hi Guys, Thank you very much for taking the time to respond and post this advice. It has worked a treat! I spent a day and half trying to sort out this virtual machine obd via laptop installation etc, but the experience with Carly was maybe 15 minutes. As soon as I saw your posts and read around it ...

hello community, Please can someone help me with coding my car. It is purely for comfort features, such as auto folding of mirrors (the folding button is there). It is x5 e70 2007 I have tried to install the widely available obd leads + software package, vmware etc, but my laptop keeps crashing ...