Cracked BMW Alloy Wheel Repair

Selecta Tyre's procedure dictates that they give each wheel a thorough check over before carrying out any work. Makes sense really, it protects them from claims the workforce has damaged customer's property, and they might spot potentially dangerous faults then highlight them to the customer.

The latter is what happened to me whilst having four wheel alignment and rear tyres fitted.

Before fitting the rear left tyre I got called out to have a look at the rear left alloy.

Not good news, it was quite badly cracked on the inner edge, something the early BMW BBS Style 230 19" Twist alloys are prone to.

Fixing The Steering Lock Faulty Warning For Free

At 6:45am in December, when it's freezing cold, dark and you've just pulled into the work's car park, the last thing you want from your car is a warning not to turn the engine off.

However, that's exactly the situation I was in. Not fancying leaving the car running for 9 hours, I took a photo of the warnings and headed on into work.

The full warning message read:

Steering lock faulty

Electronic steering wheel lock is not disabled once the engine has been switched off.
Engine cannot be restarted.
If the engine is running, do not switch off.

And was accompanied by a red warning icon of a padlock covering a steering wheel in the upper board computer display in the dials.