Hi Guys, great site, new member and first post.
I have recently bought this 2010 335d, and love it.
Many things I have planned such as swirl flaps delete and lots of other deletes it seems are good for this car, so fun times ahead.
But, this is the first problem I NEED to deal with as this rebooting is doing my head in.
The CIC unit (i am pretty sure its CIC, will add some pics to this post) completely reboots every 90 seconds, BMW logo appears, the radio comes on and works fine, the Sat Nav works I think (it loads the map and shows me where i am), but shuts down before I can try it out as it takes a while to initialise.
There is only one cd slot on the front and this will not play any music CDs? (this all used to work previously according to the seller)
The section in the options where it shows the hard drive, this is greyed out and not accessible?
There is an option to show memory usage and search and play tracks from the hard drive, but none of this works.
Ok, so there seems to be a lot of possible reasons for this to happen, so will put down what I have done so far:
1. visually checked for broken fiber optic cable based on this thread -(
https://www.e90post.com/forums/showt...cic+restarting)
2. purchased another hard drive (non SSD) and copied the original drive to the new hard drive, inserted this and the system still reboots about every 90 seconds? (
https://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=841458)
I am not sure if this is worthwhile or even possible but see if there is someone willing to somehow give me a copy of a working image to put into my drive? would this need coding somehow to work on my system?
3. Read a few posts about trying to bypass the combox (again I think this is a combox?) with a fiber optic loop to test the unit, so i bought this: (
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1) and put this on the fiber cable plugged into the back left of the combox and this made no difference to the rebooting but the Bluetooth stopped working.
So, not sure where /what to do now?
Oh, I also found a connector just sitting there under the grey plastic box in the left hand side of the boot, it was different to the fiber connector on the combox, so i could not try the loop on this, but that particular connector is open (no loop or blanking etc), but from what i could see this has no light emitting from this whatsoever, whereas the one from the combox has the red laser light.
So, I find myself at the point where it seems like Id have no choice to take this to a BMW dealer, but reluctant to do this for obvious reasons, until i have exhausted other possibilities.
Any ideas or advise please?
much appreciated.