ZPOST
BMW Garage BMW Meets Register Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read


Go Back   ZPOST > BMW Z4 Technical Talk > Navigation, Audio, Bluetooth, Stereo, Electronics Talk
  TireRack

SUPPORT ZPOST BY DOING YOUR TIRERACK SHOPPING FROM THIS BANNER, THANKS!
Post Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
      08-21-2017, 10:41 PM   #1
StickMon
My other car is on Mars
StickMon's Avatar
United_States
635
Rep
3,124
Posts

Drives: 2006 MR
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lo-Cal

iTrader: (1)

Bluetooth won't pair anymore

Solved. Just want to add to the knowledge base.

My Son decided he wanted to learn how to drive my car, maybe as a bonding exercise before he leaves for College Thursday.

He stalled it A LOT, but eventually got the hang of it and can now get away 9 times out of 10.
Doesn't help that at 6'5" and change he doesn't actually fit.
Every time it stalled he had to turn the ignition off and then back on. Every time he did my phone would beep on disconnect and then beep on reconnect.
Well, the first 10 times or so. It eventually stopped, and would not pair for the last 2 days.

If I told my phone to search for new devices, it would find the car and ask for the passkey. When I would enter the passkey, it would say "invalid code".

Pulled fuse #49, counted to 10, and then put it back in. Works!
__________________
Warning: May contain traces of nuts.
Appreciate 2
Finnegan701.00
SaltyNC367.50
      08-22-2017, 07:53 AM   #2
deemo319
Lieutenant Colonel
deemo319's Avatar
United_States
1744
Rep
1,686
Posts

Drives: BMW
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Longwood

iTrader: (0)

My Bluetooth magically stopped working a while ago so no phone calls but my Tune2Air works, so I will try it and see how it goes
Appreciate 0
      08-22-2017, 09:04 PM   #3
dc_wright
Captain
dc_wright's Avatar
249
Rep
758
Posts

Drives: 2006 Z43.0si Roadster
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Orlando, FL

iTrader: (0)

Mine occasionally hangs also. When it does, the audio module doesn't go into sleep mode and if I don't drive the car it drains the battery in about 5 days. When I've noticed it's not pairing, pulling the fuse or disconnecting the positive battery lead for a couple minutes gives everything a cold boot and its back on line.
__________________
Top Down 365
Appreciate 0
      09-04-2017, 11:14 AM   #4
SaltyNC
Captain
SaltyNC's Avatar
368
Rep
870
Posts

Drives: 2006 BMW Z4M Roadster
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: NC

iTrader: (2)

Garage List
Thanks for the reset info, Stickmon. Man, you are a braver man than I am. When I was teaching my son how to drive a stick, I ended up having to drive the car home and have a new clutch installed. In fairness, it was an old car with 165K on the original clutch. I haven't let him drive the roadster, yet. :-)

Salty
__________________
2006 BMW Z4M Interlagos Blue/Black
Aux Port|LED Interior|LED Strip Trunk|Underseat First Aid Box|Stubby Antenna|Intravee II|BMW Oil Change Kit|Top Down Side Panels|Vibra Technics Engine Mounts|Rogue Trans Mounts|Engine Mount Bolts Upgrade|RS Windblocker|Euro Front Plate|M5 Illum Shift Knob|Supersprint Powerloop Exhaust|Gruppe-M Intake|RPI Scoop|Black Grills|19x8.5 ET35 F 19x9.5 ET22 R Sportline 8s PSS| Besian Vanos|CDV Delete
Appreciate 0
      09-04-2017, 09:55 PM   #5
StickMon
My other car is on Mars
StickMon's Avatar
United_States
635
Rep
3,124
Posts

Drives: 2006 MR
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lo-Cal

iTrader: (1)

Mine's an old car with 165K on the original clutch!!
He hardly slipped the clutch at all. That was his main difficulty.

And I was a pretty lousy instructor.
He managed a take-off on the third try, and the dash started beeping.
I forgot to explain the parking brake.
And after about 10 stalls it finally dawned on me that you have to hesitate a little after you find the bite point before releasing it the rest of the way.

I've driven stick for 40 years and long ago stopped thinking about the details of how.
__________________
Warning: May contain traces of nuts.
Appreciate 0
      09-08-2017, 06:38 PM   #6
RossBMWZseries
Major
United_States
224
Rep
1,130
Posts

Drives: '11 E92 328i LCI & '06 Z4MR
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: San Juan TX

iTrader: (1)

Garage List
You guys teaching your kids how to drive stick make me feel young 😎 30 and no kids yet here
Appreciate 0
      09-15-2017, 08:16 AM   #7
elerner61
Major
elerner61's Avatar
154
Rep
1,106
Posts

Drives: '07 Z4M Roadster
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Mount Kisco, NY

iTrader: (0)

Stick, you've got 165K miles on your original clutch? What % of that would you say is highway miles? Holy crap.

I tried to get my son (who IS a car guy) to learn how to drive stick just before he went to school as well. Sadly, it wasn't a priority for him and we never did it. Years ago, before he got his permit, we practiced very low speed stuff in a parking lot and he got a kick out of that, but once he got his license he saw the whole "clutch-shift-clutch-shift" thing as more of a nuisance. I was hoping that once he got on the road he'd see the beauty of it all (coupled with some nice 3rd gear acceleration for grins).

He'll come around....even if I have to beat it out of him.
Appreciate 0
      09-16-2017, 02:09 AM   #8
StickMon
My other car is on Mars
StickMon's Avatar
United_States
635
Rep
3,124
Posts

Drives: 2006 MR
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lo-Cal

iTrader: (1)

Very little of it is highway miles.
I go into the lab 4 times a week, 3 hour round trip.
2 hours of that is stop-go traffic, and if I can get out of second gear, I blip back down.
I'm going to challenge myself to count how many times I use the clutch in one day.
It's going to be insane.

I put 175k on the clutch in my MR2, and even then it had a fair amount of surface left.
I replaced it because my pilot bearing seized.

UPDATE:
194 clutch engagements in gear over 1.5 hours on my way in this morning. Good exercise of my OCD.
Didn't include times I hit the clutch to knock it into neutral.
I did have an unusually fortunate string of green lights on a surface street and an unusually fortunate long run at 20 mph behind a big-rig on the freeway.
So 200 clutch engagements in gear one way is a good estimated average.
400 per day, 4 days a week, since Feb 2011.

I'm almost to 500,000 !!!
__________________
Warning: May contain traces of nuts.

Last edited by StickMon; 09-18-2017 at 01:47 PM..
Appreciate 0
Post Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off



All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:55 AM.




zpost
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
1Addicts.com, BIMMERPOST.com, E90Post.com, F30Post.com, M3Post.com, ZPost.com, 5Post.com, 6Post.com, 7Post.com, XBimmers.com logo and trademark are properties of BIMMERPOST