All this might be a dumb question but I've searched as much as I can and cannot find an answer. I recently stripped the entire interior from my 97 328is including removing the air bags, stock seats and stock steering wheel. I must have tripped the SRS system and maybe the immobilizer as well.
Basically the car is acting like it's been in an accident. When I connect the battery, the flashers blink slowly and the car won't crank (fuel pumps aren't running etc). I removed the crash alarm relay and the blinking stopped, so I've deduced that the crash alarm has been activated. My question is what is ended to reset this? I understand I can run a 3.3 ohm resistor to override the SRS light to use my non airbag steering wheel but how do I reset the immobilizer?
Thanks in advance!
Could be ews or srs. Ews would not make the car start, shouldn't have been affected
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Nothing in the srs system will make the car not start.
You sure your ews antenna ring is connected?
Thanks a good idea. I will double check. It could have become disconnected while I was removing the steering column cover. It immediately starts flashing as soon as I connect the battery though. It's acting like a car that's been in an accident and had an immobilizer kick in
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I'm pretty sure the SRS control unit will send a "no-go" signal to the fuel pump (or it won't send a signal to the fuel pump relay or something along those lines) if it's been in an accident. I'm going to make a guess (literally) ... the SRS control unit was dropped sometime during the resto.
For what it's worth, I checked the EWS antenna ring and it is connected. It's definitely not a no go signal to the fuel pump as the engine won't turn over (car does not react to key being turned at all)
Regardless of whether the key is in or not, as soon as the battery is connected the flashers begin to flash slowly... I've got to think the think it's been in a wreck and has immobilized itself.
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