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Help please. My E39 2 key remote had its battery replaced and now can associate it with the car. Did the steps mentioned here (including pressing 4 times) but no luck. Any other option?

Hi, I have just received a HUD unit from Nerak (www.nerak.co.nz) which I am keen on installing in my 540i. Have any of you guys got an HUD unit installed on your car? Can you recommend someone who can install this for me? Cheers.

Thanks Glenn, everything working fine including my earlier problem of A/C swithing off automatically! Guess that was also due to the voltage drop.

My a/c switching not switching on when car is started after a long time is the only other problem. I will give you a call tomorrow and bring my car over.

Any one know why my cruise control suddenly stopped working? I use it quite regularly, set at 60kmh to make sure I dont overspeed, it was working fine and suddenly the cuise light went off on the dash. Now I cant get it to turn on at all!

Hi Jochen, My E39 already has a band expander fitted to it by the local dealer. However, I find that certain radio stations clash at the same frequency and which station I can hear depends on my location at that moment! Can I use your procedure in this situation to change the area setup? Cheers.

Guess I will need Glenn's help on this.

Looks like memo was the problem, no more beeps! Thanks guys.

I find that the frequency of my a/c not powering on automatically when the car is started has increased quite a bit. Now this happens almost all mornings, when I first start it for the day. About 3 minutes into my driving, it comes on and behaves completely normal for the whole day! And no associated dimming of music system or any other lights. While it is off when I start the car, I cannot manually turn it on either, all a/c keys are unresponsive. Could this be some loose connection? Car is E39 540i.

Is it possible to remove just the headlight cover (the outer glass area where the wiper wash falls on) so as to expose the 2 round lights behind? Does this glass serve any purpose? And will the washer fluid create any issues if this is removed? Hate the look of my E39 540i headlight! Want it to look more like the E34 headlights.

I guess the Germans would go crazy to hear that most news here are never on time!

WOW!

Have been testing fuel consumption on my 1998 540i. With BP 98 and Synergy 8000, am getting between 16 -16.5l/100km around town with heavy foot from traffic lights. Did one trip to Hamilton and back and that gave 15.2l/100km. Can't imagine that I can get better than this. Next 2 projects, find out consumption if all driving done in S mode and then if all driving in manual mode! I will be thrilled if the difference between normal and sport is not too much. Has anyone tried that?

Yeah, it might have been (((.

I just went down and sure enough it was on. Turned it off, hopefully will get rid of the beeps. A plus point was that when I turned off the memo, it also removed the ))) sign on the screen, whose meaning I have been trying for a long time to figure out!So is this memo function only to give a chime on the hour? Thanks for your advice.