Strange limp mode issue

[8-P]

Hi All.

On Saturday I attempted the infamous steering rack knock repair kit on my 430i Gran Coupe F30. Easy job but the new part didn’t seem keen so I chickened out and put it back together with the original parts after cleaning it and re greasing using correct BMW grease. Took it round the block, felt a bit tight so unscrewed the thread a fraction. Felt about right and parked up.

40 mile drive to work today no problem(plenty of fast bits too). On the way home fortunately not far from a family member’s home it went into limp mode.

Steering still feels fine but I swear I could smell grease before this happened. Restarting has removed the limp warning but I have no idea why it did this(I will get it checked out).

Surely related but why?

Link to the process
https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t...

Edited by 8-P on Tuesday 19th November 20:50

[rottenegg]

8-P said:

Hi All.

On Saturday I attempted the infamous steering rack knock repair kit on my 430i Gran Coupe F30. Easy job but the new part didn’t seem keen so I chickened out and put it back together with the original parts after cleaning it and re greasing using correct BMW grease. Took it round the block, felt a bit tight so unscrewed the thread a fraction. Felt about right and parked up.

40 mile drive to work today no problem(plenty of fast bits too). On the way home fortunately not far from a family member’s home it went into limp mode.

Steering still feels fine but I swear I could smell grease before this happened. Restarting has removed the limp warning but I have no idea why it did this(I will get it checked out).

Surely related but why?

Link to the process
https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t...

Perhaps elaborate on not seeming keen? I found it to be an extremely easy job.

You must have disturbed something, and you'll need a code reader to find out what. Other than ESP/stability/ABS warnings, there isn't much else the steering controller complains about.

[8-P]

Just had someone plug a reader into it and there were no faults!

When I say keen, it was a cylinder with two seals, it didn’t seem to want to go passed the second or maybe I didn’t have it lined up properly or should have pushed harder.