Flat Tyre Monitor and downstream disasters
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Christmas is fast approaching and to get into the spirit my 125k F31 320d has decided to switch on practically all of it's dash lights.
According to the car the culprit is an FTM, which one it cannot say. Clearly picking between 4 is too much for it's tiny brain to handle. The knock on effect is that the ABS, traction control, cruise control and driving modes which are all now disabled, just in time for the first frost.
A quick diagnostic check at Halfords (the only place with availiblity and they did do it for free) to check I wasn't going to die on my commute home confirmed the FTM was caput, but also that the car was throwing a drive shaft pick up ring error.
None of this is terribly surprising considering the car's advanced age, just like my TV it is 14 years old this year, and the fact it spent a torturous few years in the freezing salty wasteland that is Aberdeenshire. The first quote I've had back was over £900 which seems a little steep at 50% of the car's value, but did include a new drive shaft as well as the ring and sensor...
Has anyone gto any experience with this issue and the cost of getting it fixed? Bitter experience suggests that a cheap sensor replacement leads to more and more expensive issues appearing as work continues.
My last car was the very definition of the sunk cost fallacy and I'd like to avoid that scenario again, however the car generally runs beautifully and had a new timing chain 30k ago so the usual time bomb has been defused, albeit after it went off. I don't really want to buy a new car but my concern is that the insidious salt and potential rusting hiding underneath, plus the spectre of death by diesel soot may mean it's time to pull the plug.
Is this the beginning of the end? Is the FTM a portent of doom? Shared experiences, tough love advice or tarot card readings all very welcome.
Possum19 said:
Christmas is fast approaching and to get into the spirit my 125k F31 320d has decided to switch on practically all of it's dash lights.
According to the car the culprit is an FTM, which one it cannot say. Clearly picking between 4 is too much for it's tiny brain to handle. The knock on effect is that the ABS, traction control, cruise control and driving modes which are all now disabled, just in time for the first frost.
A quick diagnostic check at Halfords (the only place with availiblity and they did do it for free) to check I wasn't going to die on my commute home confirmed the FTM was caput, but also that the car was throwing a drive shaft pick up ring error.
None of this is terribly surprising considering the car's advanced age, just like my TV it is 14 years old this year, and the fact it spent a torturous few years in the freezing salty wasteland that is Aberdeenshire. The first quote I've had back was over £900 which seems a little steep at 50% of the car's value, but did include a new drive shaft as well as the ring and sensor...
Has anyone gto any experience with this issue and the cost of getting it fixed? Bitter experience suggests that a cheap sensor replacement leads to more and more expensive issues appearing as work continues.
My last car was the very definition of the sunk cost fallacy and I'd like to avoid that scenario again, however the car generally runs beautifully and had a new timing chain 30k ago so the usual time bomb has been defused, albeit after it went off. I don't really want to buy a new car but my concern is that the insidious salt and potential rusting hiding underneath, plus the spectre of death by diesel soot may mean it's time to pull the plug.
Is this the beginning of the end? Is the FTM a portent of doom? Shared experiences, tough love advice or tarot card readings all very welcome.
Get these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/127851603395According to the car the culprit is an FTM, which one it cannot say. Clearly picking between 4 is too much for it's tiny brain to handle. The knock on effect is that the ABS, traction control, cruise control and driving modes which are all now disabled, just in time for the first frost.
A quick diagnostic check at Halfords (the only place with availiblity and they did do it for free) to check I wasn't going to die on my commute home confirmed the FTM was caput, but also that the car was throwing a drive shaft pick up ring error.
None of this is terribly surprising considering the car's advanced age, just like my TV it is 14 years old this year, and the fact it spent a torturous few years in the freezing salty wasteland that is Aberdeenshire. The first quote I've had back was over £900 which seems a little steep at 50% of the car's value, but did include a new drive shaft as well as the ring and sensor...
Has anyone gto any experience with this issue and the cost of getting it fixed? Bitter experience suggests that a cheap sensor replacement leads to more and more expensive issues appearing as work continues.
My last car was the very definition of the sunk cost fallacy and I'd like to avoid that scenario again, however the car generally runs beautifully and had a new timing chain 30k ago so the usual time bomb has been defused, albeit after it went off. I don't really want to buy a new car but my concern is that the insidious salt and potential rusting hiding underneath, plus the spectre of death by diesel soot may mean it's time to pull the plug.
Is this the beginning of the end? Is the FTM a portent of doom? Shared experiences, tough love advice or tarot card readings all very welcome.
Replace all 4; recalibrate when you're driving and all should be sorted
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