Gear No. flashing

[O'Neill]

Drove the car Sat, first time in six weeks.

Noticed the gear number was flashing, changed gear fine, drove as normal.

slammed the bonnet, doors and boot a few times, gear indicator was still flashing.

On the way home it stopped flashing, put it down to not driving it for a while.

Sunday it did the same but when stationary in 1st it put it self into neutral and the yellow cog light came on. It still drove and changed gear as normal.

I put a replacement salmon relay in and the gear number was still flashing, opened, closed bonnet, doors and boot again it stopped flashing.

Went for a 50 mile blast and all was fine.

I know a few on here have had problems with the smg, is this the beginnings of the end

[Mark CSL]

Sounds like it will need poped in to bmw to check it on there machine
Not much help but it could be a switch and nothing too expensive.

Do you have warranty ?

[O'Neill]

Originally Posted by Mark CSL

Sounds like it will need poped in to bmw to check it on there machine
Not much help but it could be a switch and nothing too expensive.

Do you have warranty ?

Yep I have warranty, but with intermittent problems they are hard to diagnose. Hopefully it was just the relay, if not I hope it doesn't re-occur at the worst possibly time if you get my meaning

[Mark CSL]

I would get them to check it ASAP it might hold a fault in the ecu

[Bounce]

As Mark says Barry,could be just one of the bonnet catches,or the gear position sensor switch on top of the gear box.Mine would go into neutral whilst driving,which was a bit scary when on the motorway cos it wouldn't go back into gear.I ended up with a new pump under Warranty with the help of Elms.Get BMW to plug it in and bring the fault codes up.

[O'Neill]

Originally Posted by Bounce

As Mark says Barry,could be just one of the bonnet catches,or the gear position sensor switch on top of the gear box.Mine would go into neutral whilst driving,which was a bit scary when on the motorway cos it wouldn't go back into gear.I ended up with a new pump under Warranty with the help of Elms.Get BMW to plug it in and bring the fault codes up.

I'll pop to Elms Sat if they can fit me in

[O'Neill]

The funny thing is on Sat I planned a drive which passed a freind who is a BMW specialist, I popped in to catch up as I Haven't seen him for a while.
I didn't mention the flashing gear indicator as he might have thought that was my reason for turning up

[83SY]

Friend of mine had very same thing recently on 03 E46 M3 SMG, bonnet catch mate

[O'Neill]

Originally Posted by 83SY

Friend of mine had very same thing recently on 03 E46 M3 SMG, bonnet catch mate

I hope not, I'll have to pay for that, I've have a £250 excess

[Equinox]

make sure it needs some other things too then and get a good 250's worth of stuff too