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Ahh ok...

Jaysus thats a big bill... good job you have the WD cover. Hopefully they will pick up the lot - the only thing that might not get picked up by WD is if the indy has put labour charges for investigation / removal of other parts as they only pay for the parts and associated labour that are the problem.

You have PM.


Turks.

All fixed
Turns out the car had gone into transport mode, whatever that is.
Dealer reset it and reset the ride height so everything is fine now
Total bill £165 inc diagnostic.
Included in that they also fixed the PDC system. A wire had come loose on the sysstem somewhere.

Hi Kena

I'm do glad you got it all fixed and happy. Also pleased the bill was a bit more palatable!

Why did it go into Transport mode? Was it some kind of sensor issue? I know nothing about these things


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That's a PITA if a sensor just cost you that!

As ITBArbie asks - why would it go into that mode - you been carrying anything heavy in the car recently (that's not an invite for fat jokes)!

[quote=""ITBarbie""]Hi Kena

I'm do glad you got it all fixed and happy. Also pleased the bill was a bit more palatable!

Why did it go into Transport mode? Was it some kind of sensor issue? I know nothing about these things


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I've no idea Penny. Just had new front airbags/suspension fitted and new compressor at Indy.
When it came back it wasn't sitting right ( low at front and high at rear )
Indy thought it was due to the ECU for the suspension.
His diagnostic didn't pick up the transport mode thing.
Indy has refused to take any payment from me as he admits he got it wrong.

[quote=""Sanj""]That's a PITA if a sensor just cost you that!

As ITBArbie asks - why would it go into that mode - you been carrying anything heavy in the car recently (that's not an invite for fat jokes)! [/quote]

Nothing Sanj, would that cause it to go into transport mode.

[quote=""kena""]Nothing Sanj, would that cause it to go into transport mode.[/quote]

I recall seeing posts on the old forum, suspension probs when owners had carried heavy loads in the back, that's all...

[quote=""Sanj""][quote=""kena""]Nothing Sanj, would that cause it to go into transport mode.[/quote]

I recall seeing posts on the old forum, suspension probs when owners had carried heavy loads in the back, that's all...[/quote]

I had never heard of transport mode until yesterday.
Limp mode yes but not transport mode.
Anyway the X is running fine again and once again a pleasure to drive.
Am off to Manchester tomorrow to pick my son up so looking forward to giving her a long run out

Hi, transport mode is a feature used by the factory when shipping cars to dealers. It disables some customer functions such as radio, nav, window operation... This prevents the shipping company from messing about with the car eg putting data into radio, leaving windows open etc. Also, transport mode reduces the time required for the vehicle to go to sleep, saving battery power. This is useful to know if diagnosing quiescent current problems. If you have appropriate sw you can enable transport mode in all ecus and then wait only 5 minutes instead of 30 before the car sleeps.. (on the e70 onwards, havent tried it on an e53 yet).

Thanks Jango-fett


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[quote=""jango-fett""]Hi, transport mode is a feature used by the factory when shipping cars to dealers. It disables some customer functions such as radio, nav, window operation... This prevents the shipping company from messing about with the car eg putting data into radio, leaving windows open etc. Also, transport mode reduces the time required for the vehicle to go to sleep, saving battery power. This is useful to know if diagnosing quiescent current problems. If you have appropriate sw you can enable transport mode in all ecus and then wait only 5 minutes instead of 30 before the car sleeps.. (on the e70 onwards, havent tried it on an e53 yet).[/quote]


cheers
you learn something everyday.
The only thing affected was my ride height. Everything else functioned ok.

It is possible only this ecu was in transport mode, affecting only the suspension side of things. Each ecu needs to be done individually and only affects the small amount of functionality that each ecu is responsible for.....thats why nothing else was affected.

I am guessing the new ecu was delivered in this condition. Coding the part will not take it out of transport mode, a special diagnostic job needs to be run to do that.

Glad its all sorted for you now.

Nice one jango-fett - makes sense when you think about it.

Good luck Kena and enjoy the ride - glad all sorted buddy!