Ambient lighting annoyance

[David Comstock]

Hi David. No problem The ECU is the car’s brain. All you need to do if you don’t have Bimmercode is disconnect the 12V battery for a minute or two. You’re not touching the HV side of the electrics; just the 12V battery like you’d have in any car or bike. When you reconnect it hopefully your issue will be resolved. Mine hasn’t been plugged into the dealer’s computer since and it’s still working as it should. If you’re not confident doing that yourself, take it to your dealer if you can and one of their guys should be able to do it for you pretty quickly. I hope you get it fixed as it’s an annoying little issue.

@SpeedyRS Just a quick update on my issue... I removed the covers yesterday and disconnected the battery (both positive and negative terminals) for a few minutes, hooked everything back up and unfortunately it didn't seem to fix anything. Oh well. Guess I'll just live with it. Perhaps it will get worked out at some point in the future when I take the car back in for service. Thx again though for all your help! Happy New Year!

 

[lilyofvalleys]

Been following this thread since I've been having this ambient lighting memory issue after receiving a software update at my Mini dealership over a year ago for my 2022 Mini Cooper! Just wanted to update what worked: battery reset. Redownloading the updated software did not work and tried that several times with the Mini dealership team. Brought up to them that resetting the battery seemed to work for some folks on this forum, so they disconnected the battery, let it sit for 10-20 min, reconnected and tested ambient lighting memory which came back! After a year of manually changing the lights EVERY ride, this seemed to be the solution for my Mini. Thanks everyone for their solutions, hope this battery reset method helps for others