Push button start no workie

[dash1873]

A heads up for those with trouble starting a 3 series bmw ( my own is an 07 2Ld )with the push button start. Came to start it one day nothing , called my AA guy to have a look and he said it was the starter ,so booked it in with my local garage who changed the starter still nothing . They looked at everything else still nothing, eventually calling in an auto electrician who found that a chip no bigger than 2mm x 3mm had burnt out. when the board had been changed the car started no problem. Biggest gripe was that it had to go to the main dealer to get board fitted & synced with car and both keys synced also. Total cost for this was £850 less 50p.

[halo34]

Tough one - did you book it in specifically to get the start replaced or did you ask the garage to check it.

It does my head in these days that diagnosis seems to replace parts until fixed now.

If you had asked the original garage to diagnose and they got it wrong, I would be asking for some come back on just replacing the starter in hope it cured it, unfortunately you may have asked for it specifically?

Not sure that helps - but I guess it depends what was asked for in the first place from the indi?

Its a cheap part but obviously if you got it through BMW and coded through them main dealer rates apply

[dash1873]

No just took the advice of the AA guy, bought the starter myself and gave it to the garage to fit so it was on my own head i suppose. I had no option but to put it into the main dealer to fit the board and sync it etc as local independant didnt have the software.