BMW or MINI dead-armed in Richmond — windows, lights and indicators out after a jump start or flat battery? That is the footwell module (FRM), and it does not need replacing. We come to you from our Leatherhead base — Richmond is 10 miles away, typically about 30 minutes — and rebuild the original module at your door in about an hour, coding intact. Weekend cars in garages, school-run x1s and enough z4s and convertibles to keep the frm busy year-round: we know this patch well. More: symptoms checklist · what it costs · dead after a jump start.
The footwell module fails the same way everywhere — weekend cars in garages, school-run X1s and enough Z4s and convertibles to keep the FRM busy year-round. Two or more of these together, especially after a jump start or flat battery, and it is almost certainly the FRM.
The classic: jump leads on a flat battery, engine fires — and windows, indicators and lights are all dead at once. The voltage dip corrupted the FRM's memory. Fully recoverable at your door.
Most commonAll windows quit together after a battery event. Motors and switches are fine — the module lost its configuration. Rebuilt at the car, coding kept.
After battery eventsDipped beam or tail light dark on one side with good bulbs — the FRM drives each circuit individually. Bulb-swapping cannot fix it; rebuilding the module does.
Signature faultPhantom bulb warnings that will not clear and central locking gone erratic complete the picture — the module reporting its own corrupt state.
Same root causeRichmond has more than its share of weekend BMWs — and cars that sit go flat, and flat-battery recoveries are how FRMs corrupt. We come to the garage; the cover barely needs to come off.
The weekender patternUsed FRMs carry the donor car's coding and usually refuse to programme. We repair your original instead — nothing to code, nothing to gamble on.
Avoid the trapStrictly mobile, from our Leatherhead base to home, workplace or the garage where the car lives.
Call or WhatsApp with your registration, postcode and what happened. The fixed quote comes back in minutes — Richmond is 10 miles from base, so there are no travel surprises in it.
Driveway, office or street — anywhere across Richmond, Twickenham, Teddington and the rest of the area. The car does not need to move, which matters when the lights and indicators are down.
The FRM is read and its data rebuilt on the original board, coding intact. Windows, lights both sides, indicators and locking all tested before we pack up.
The areas we visit most in and around Richmond — and if yours is not listed, it almost certainly still falls inside our patch. Ask.
Every FRM-equipped BMW and MINI covered — 1 & 3 Series, X1, Z4, X5, X6 and MINI R55–R61. All our Richmond services: mobile car services in Richmond. More: symptoms checklist · what it costs · dead after a jump start.
This is what the job actually looks like — FRM boards opened, read and repaired at component level, not swapped for a costly new unit. These photos are from our own bench.
No posting your module away, no recovery to a garage, no days off the road. We come to you anywhere in Richmond, rebuild the original FRM at the car, and test everything before we leave — original coding kept.
The classic Richmond job. Think a Kew-garaged Z4 after the winter lay-up — the pattern repeats across the area every week. FRM rebuilt at the car, everything back before we leave.
The one-sided MINI. Dipped or tail light dark on one side, bulbs perfect. Module repaired at the door, both sides lit — no posting, no waiting.
The eBay detour. A second-hand FRM that refused to programme. Original module rebuilt instead — where the job should have started.
The quickest way to get a price is to call us — or WhatsApp with your reg and the symptoms. Most quotes back within minutes, 7 days a week.
Tap to call now 07550 006 999 7 days a week, 7am–9pm. We answer when we can; voicemails returned the same day.