E65 DSC failure

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paul mcmillen - 21 Feb 2008 23:06 GMT

Hi,

As I moved off tonight, got a shuddering noise like I had driven over some
rough stones, followed by "DSC failure, please drive moderately" warning.
Any ideas??

2004 745i 70K

Cheers,

Paul

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Grizz - 22 Feb 2008 17:37 GMT

> Hi,
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> Paul

I believe DSC is Dynamic Stability Control.

Were you driving on ice or snow?
I had a (non bmw) loaner with DSC once and the manual
recommended turning off the DSC when getting started in ice or snow.

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Andrew Batke - 26 Feb 2008 19:03 GMT

This just happened to me on ice/snow about two weeks ago. I turned off the
car for 1 day and now the message is gone. I was scared too. :) I hope yours
goes away too.

- Batke

>> Hi,
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> I had a (non bmw) loaner with DSC once and the manual
> recommended turning off the DSC when getting started in ice or snow.

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paul mcmillen - 11 Mar 2008 02:20 GMT

Cheers for the reply, actually I got it all wrong, the failure I got was '
Drive System Control failure - please drive moderately'. I could drive the
car ok and the next morning the fault had gone. Apparently this is an
indication of low power steering fluid although when I checked, everything
looked ok. Hasn't come up again since!

Many thanx

Paul (Belfast)

> This just happened to me on ice/snow about two weeks ago. I turned off the
> car for 1 day and now the message is gone. I was scared too. :) I hope
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>> I had a (non bmw) loaner with DSC once and the manual
>> recommended turning off the DSC when getting started in ice or snow.

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