first the story behind this,
i recently figured out that my car has active front steering by decoding the VIN, while i already own this car for 3 years. ( probably explains why steering isn't that light like it should been.)
went on investigating why it could not find/connect in inpa.
this is where it starts. there was no fuse (40A in the glovebox) present, put a new fuse in, and still nothing.
thought maybe a bad active front steering module ( water damage or corroded/rusted pins )
turns out the power connector was left unplugged. everything else seems alright. no moisture or corrosion or rust to be found in the area where the module sits.
after i plugged the connector back in the fun started with the following messages in the idrive.
Active steering faulty!
Drive control system!
in ista had the following code:
005F60 DSC: Control unit not for vehicles with active front steering.
so probably the previous owner already had or active front steering trouble, put a DSC unit without AFS in it and pulled the fuse to disable it.
or had a faulty DSC unit and just go this way as an easy fix to keep it driving or to sell the car without "big faults" popping up in the dash.
so i got another dsc unit for active steering out of an E60 3.0D ( probably a manual trans and found out it is a Dynamic Stability Control 8Plus unit ) without knowing what part number i need or could use.
or even if that could matter or not, meaning with that do i need a dsc unit out of a car with auto transmission, or can one out of a manual be used?
after installing the new dsc unit came a new list of fault codes. ( see picture below ) figured it needed to be programmed to match the VIN of the car.
programming the "new" unit with winkfp to match the vin and coded it after programming, still nothing and all the codes came back.
found in inpa that the SZL module showed no vin. thought that maybe that had something to do with it and corrected that.
still no luck.
idrive now shows 3 faults :
Active steering faulty
Drive control system
Start assistant inactive ( isn't this only for manual trans ? )
so the next questions are: did i bought a wrong DSC unit and need another one based on part numbers? and wich one do i need?
if not, whats next to do.
replace dsc sensor under the seats?
check wiring for damages?
replace active steering module?
00613D code would probably be a bad wiring to the lock as that is most common as far as i could find out?
( IHKA, fan box and AHL codes where already present before this. so nothing to do with the current situation )
