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It was intermittent for a few days and last week decided to stay on all the time. The rear nearside was cocked up in the air, both fronts were down different amounts and the the ride height button light was out with all the usual dash warnings.

A quick check with BMW Scanner showed no problems with the ride height sensors, but I wasn't convinced it was telling the truth. There's no bag leaks and the know the controller is good - I replaced it last year with a brand new one. So off to my awesome local indie.

Turns out there was a wire broken in the loom somewhere between the controller and the front sensors that's obviously been intermittently been screwing things and it's finally broken. Wire very tidily by-passed (I didn't fancy having to dismantle the entire car), a couple of hours labour and a fixed and level X5. In the scale of events and very cheap fix.

It's now perfect again .... for a while.

Mine was pretty identical,chaffed wires through the chassis,never rule out the simple things just a matter of finding them.

Nice work Dave! Any ideas what causes the wire to chaffing at the wire? Design floor from BM maybe?

Nice fix Dave. Glad it's sorted buddy.

It's somewhere buried deep in the chassis/bodywork/bulkhead and by the sounds of it I'm not the only one.