118D sports Traction control ?

[Johnyanorak]

My bmw 118d sports has the triangle with the circular arrow around it ? the dtc button does nothing , it was a damaged car , any body have similar problem ?

[Fox-]

Sounds like there is a fault with your DSC+ system.

[kentmotorcompany]

DSC ECU has failed. Quite comman problem, and expensive to fix. £1,800 at a BMW dealer.

Is your car still under warranty? If not and you have full BMW service history, there is a good chance BMW will pay for some/all of the cost depending how far out of warranty it is.

Good luck with that!

[Johnyanorak]

kentmotorcompany said:

DSC ECU has failed. Quite comman problem, and expensive to fix. £1,800 at a BMW dealer.

Is your car still under warranty? If not and you have full BMW service history, there is a good chance BMW will pay for some/all of the cost depending how far out of warranty it is.

Good luck with that!

Im tracking the original dealership for service history and to see if is under warranty , i bought of a friend half repaired ... more money to be spent... and do any of you know where i can get a dashboard + airbag and a steering wheel airbag , recomendations ?

thanks, John

[PJR]

Yes, it could well be that stability/traction module.. I think it's just failed yet again on our 120D! Was only replaced 6 months ago too..

[Fox-]

Sounds like this particular 'well cheap beemer mate' isn't

[Johnyanorak]

Fox- said:

Sounds like this particular 'well cheap beemer mate' isn't

slightly annoyed , but i got out of my old V reg audi s3 , it was running 300bhp and because i knew that was tempted to thrash it , went through 300bhp clutches every other week and risked my license , was happy to get out of it i basicly did the deal in the dark , i have got all my other parts so when there fitted im going to see if hes got that module and get bmw to programe it in or what ever it requires , surely i can get it repaired , ive dealt with bigger problems before , (bmw quoted 6k for whole new break system when all i needed is the slave cylinder)