Find a good auto electrician, this is bread and butter work to them, and they can repair easily and cheaply compared to getting BMW involved.

 

Any recommendations around East London/Essex?

 

So I took it to a garage and they checked the wiring front to back and said it was fine but needed a new FRM. I spoke to another place that advertises as being a specialist for ECUs, programming etc and he said the FRM is likely okay but may have been swapped in the past but not coded to the car. I'm not sure on the likelihood of this??

Getting a used FRM is easy enough but there's no guarantee it doesn't have issues as well and then needs coding!

Here are the fault codes:
1.9CBC FRM: Short circuit Fault 1
2.9322 FRM: Reversing Light, Right, Faulty

Side note, any recommendations on to cover up the boot wires after the rubber cover has been cut? I usually use self amalgamating tape.

 

Having looked properly at the boot wires I can see some have been repaired (badly) and more look like they are breaking.

Is 61119133628 the complete loom? Would it just plug in at connectors rather than cutting and soldering things? I'm wondering if this would be an easier more long term fix albeit more expensive.

 

61119133628

Looks to be complete loom in this ad, Pardon our interruption...

Not suggesting you buy from that ad though, due to location.

 

I think I will just try one of these Febi repair kits and just take my time doing one wire at a time

Pardon our interruption...

 

Me too its a lot cheaper.

 

The Febi kit arrived but the colours don't match the wires that are on the car so it's now definitely beyond my skillset. Local garage quoted over £300 to fit the repair kit (4 hours labour)

At this point it's cheaper to buy a new loom from BMW!

 

one wire at a time and it’s a doddle. So if the wire on car is brown pick a wire that is around same gauge and connect it both sides to the brown wire and so on.

short circuit counter can be reset with diagnostics capable of reading the FRM. Post up where you are based and someone may be able to recommend a place/person to do it for you

 

I have fixed a few wires and reading around it seems I need to reset the short circuit counter. Problem is where can I get this done? I can't be bothered to buy all the stuff just to do this one task

 

I need to reset the short circuit counter.

Do you mean fault codes?

 

Doesn’t matter what colour is in febi kit if you do one at a time you can connect any colour you like to the car wiring either side

 

To update on this, I reset the short circuit counter and all is well now for this issue!

 

Nice one.