Virginising a BSI - anyone had experience of this?

ManicMum

Hello

sounds weird, I know.

Ongoing saga of us repairing a CAT D Citroen C4 Picasso 2008. All seemed to be going well for a while. Got the BSI virginised by a company who do that, my mechanic re-programmed it ok but then bits of data started dropping out of it, like the electric windows stopped working. He tried to re-program but same thing kept happening.

He is going to send it back to the company to see if they can re-do it but may need to buy a brand new one. Apparently a new one can be installed online directly via Citroen? But mechanic saying car may also need to go to Citroen for them to do something (i can't recall it all now, too much info for my poor brain).

Does anyone have any experience of this sort of thing?

I tell you, I can't wait for this all to be over. It's toooooooooo stressful.

Kilty_2

I assume a BSI is a control unit that locks down in an accident into "crash mode" or similar?

I've heard of such things needing to be replaced. Probably added to the case for categorising the car too.

harveybobbles

Can I ask if this is the same C4 that was mentioned what feels like over a year ago...?! :S

ManicMum

ay, that be it.

Will be 2 years in July siince we bought it and 1 year thhis May since it went to garage.

I just don't know what to do. A local guy, who is very nice is working on it for us. He is doing it when he has down time. Not sure exactly what he will charge us but he has alluded to us not to worry as it's as much a project for him as us. We trust him. Sometimes I think, just take the thing to Citroen and let them finish it but then will be £70+ an hour and who knows what the bill will be. It's just so stressful. Wish we'd never started the bloody thing.

mikey72

The BSI is a complicated interface, quick summary.

http://www.autodiagnos.com/fileadmin/assets/en/downloads/pdf/technical_bulletins/psa/bsi_complete.pdf