now im having charging problems too..HELP

[DaveVoorhis]

You know... for everyone's and your sake, take the car into the BMW dealer and let them tell you what is wrong with the car. This way is much cheaper than the way Tim went through.

If you know your dealer is **** hot at diagnosing electrical problems and 110% honest, that will work. Otherwise, you might wind up paying parts & labour for the 17 year old shop apprentice to gain "experience" replacing every electrical part (and the bits he breaks along the way) in a hit-or-miss attempt to fix a problem that no one else in the garage will touch because it's (a) electrical, and a lot of dodgy dealership mechanics hate electrical; and (b) an "old car" that they can't simply plug into the DIS/MoDiC and have OBDII sensors (hopefully) tell them what part(s) to replace.

[bmwrp8]

you are most welcome, i hope it helps.

iiwy i would replace those negative cables first anyway... much easier, very cheap to do and good maintenance anyway.

just changed - cables from batt. to chassis including batt.post clamps. i don't drain overnight anymore but when everything is on esp. when aux.fan kicks high i still get low readings from obc. as low as 11.48 i guess im getting near to finding the prob though..hope this info helps a bit i'll post pix as soon as i can to show you guys how my old and new cables looks like.

[bmwrp8]

here's some pics of the old and new cables. Sorry can't take a pix of all the new cables.engine is hot.

[tim eh?]

here's some pics of the old and new cables. Sorry can't take a pix of all the new cables.engine is hot.

wow, that is ugly! that can't be a bad thing changing those!

[632 Regal]

wonder what shorted out so bad? Bet if you find the short you find the problem.

wow, that is ugly! that can't be a bad thing changing those!

[tim eh?]

wonder what shorted out so bad? Bet if you find the short you find the problem.

i have seen cables like that and it was just heat, humidity, salt and old age...

i bet mine look like that under here... look at the goo coming out