Anyone have an idea of what would cause this?

karlandkell, Oct 6, 4:50am
Tried to accelerate, no power what so ever. Reversing was fine. All the lights on the dash were flashing. Turned off, and then worked?

BMW 318ti 2002

rbd, Oct 6, 4:58am
BMW past its use by date caused it.

stornello, Oct 6, 4:58am
Turn it on and off again ? That's always worked for me.

intrade, Oct 6, 5:41am
voltage drop problem. i recall that bmw bob guy said something about a specific place of problems .
your symptom description matches a power supply problem there be many many fault codes now if you put a bmw scanner on it all set by the flashing voltage dropout .

msigg, Oct 6, 5:58am
yes as above you need to get the codes read. Go from there.

marte, Jan 2, 3:05am
German cars are infuriating.