Saturday 17 February 2018

BMW F Series Emergency Neutral Procedure


During delivery and taking the car to body shop I've had to learn how to engage emergency neutral on the 8 speed ZF auto gearbox.

Essentially there are two methods

1. Jack car up, remove splash covers and screw in bolt on underside of gearbox until you hear a click. This engages neutral mechanically and car will stay in neutral until bolt is backed off. This method is usually used when the engine is unable to be cranked.

2. Electronic method as detailed in the iDrive manual. Essentially you crank the engine, move selector to N and hold until a gong and message is displayed then release and move back to N within 6 seconds.

Hopefully this will help someone as I couldn't find this online anywhere




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