2008 E92 330i Active steering light

[Allanv]

Hi,

Driving today the yellow steering wheel light activated with the exclamation mark also.

Now am I right in thinking there is not PS fluid top up with this? The book does not mention a reservoir.

Google is inconclusive for this model and year.

Restarted the car and it was fine but maybe the imagination but could have sworn it judders slightly at low speed turns and notice on the only hard lock I performed it was noisy

Warranty is still on the car but thought I would check in here. I will check Carly in the morning as I am still working grrr.

Actually looking at VIN decoder I do not see active steering listed but the reservoir does not look like the images online.

it looks like this - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bmw+active+steer...

Not this? - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bmw+active+steer...

Today:

I drove her today and although the steering light did not come on it did stutter a few times before clearing but what else happened was she kept slipping out of DS / Manual to D? this happened a few times but after a restart it stopped?

How odd. Any Ideas?

Cheers

Allan

[Theophany]

Active steering itself does not use fluid as it is just an electric motor driven system that quickens the steering at low to mid speeds. I've read that sometimes low PAS fluid can be the root cause of the issue or a faulty steering angle sensor. My first port of call when that light comes up is to do an active steering reset; disconnect battery for a few minutes, reconnect, switch ignition to ON position and do two full lock-to-lock turns of the wheel. This has always sorted it out whenever I've had problems with it on my 6er.

Luckily you're covered by warranty, so if it turns out that you do have active steering specced, I'd get the dealer to look at it. Honestly no idea about the gearbox issue - when you say it slipped out of sequential to auto, were you using the gear selector or paddles (i.e. did the selector physically move back to the 'D' position)?

[Allanv]

Theophany said:

Active steering itself does not use fluid as it is just an electric motor driven system that quickens the steering at low to mid speeds. I've read that sometimes low PAS fluid can be the root cause of the issue or a faulty steering angle sensor. My first port of call when that light comes up is to do an active steering reset; disconnect battery for a few minutes, reconnect, switch ignition to ON position and do two full lock-to-lock turns of the wheel. This has always sorted it out whenever I've had problems with it on my 6er.

Luckily you're covered by warranty, so if it turns out that you do have active steering specced, I'd get the dealer to look at it. Honestly no idea about the gearbox issue - when you say it slipped out of sequential to auto, were you using the gear selector or paddles (i.e. did the selector physically move back to the 'D' position)?

Thank you I will try the reset, as for the gearbox issue I was using the paddles with the selector physically selected to the left or in DS / Manual mode and it did not move from there but the dash showed D instead of DS or M2 gear as would be normal when sat at lights. It did this a couple of times.

[Allanv]

Thinking back as nothing has happened since I am wondering if the 108KG of kiln dried sand and 2 Japanese stepping stones and of course the driver (me) and the wife in the car made it a tad unstable or it just got a bit confused. I weigh 11.5 stone and the wife around 12 wet.

The stuff was in the boot for 2 days and I didn't hold back on the lanes we frequent near where we live, although it was out of the boot the evening before the issues arose.

So did the system throw a panic? who knows but the car is back to itself and has been apart from the steering judder the day after this all happened.

Nearly a week later no other issues or fault codes apart from the loose bulb annoying one that comes around now and again.

If anything changes I will update this thread.

Cheers

Allan