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      09-18-2019, 08:37 AM   #1
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Flashing/Throbbing Accent Lighting

Anyone know what flashing/throbbing accent lighting indicates? Mine started doing this in the front.
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Anyone know what flashing/throbbing accent lighting indicates? Mine started doing this in the front.
Was it strobing when you received a call through Bluetooth?
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      09-18-2019, 10:20 AM   #3
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Nope. Does it all the time if I’m in the car. If I turn off the active lighting it goes away but it obviously means something. I don’t think a door is ajar or anything. I’ll see if I can find it in the manual.
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Nope. Does it all the time if I’m in the car. If I turn off the active lighting it goes away but it obviously means something. I don’t think a door is ajar or anything. I’ll see if I can find it in the manual.
I don't recall that being normal at all. I'd recommend calling your service advisor.
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Thanks. It’s going in Friday for a trim piece and software update so I’ll have them look at it.
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Nope. Does it all the time if I’m in the car. If I turn off the active lighting it goes away but it obviously means something. I don’t think a door is ajar or anything. I’ll see if I can find it in the manual.
Mine did this for the first time (at least that I've noticed) last night when I stopped at the end of my driveway to check the mail. I left the car running and left the door open and when I got back in the car, it started pulsing. Interesting thing was that my overall interior lighting was set to blue with white contour, but the pulsing lighting was orange. I assumed it was just a visual warning that my door was open.

I'll see if I can re-create it tonight to determine whether it was a fluke.
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Mine did this for the first time (at least that I've noticed) last night when I stopped at the end of my driveway to check the mail. I left the car running and left the door open and when I got back in the car, it started pulsing. Interesting thing was that my overall interior lighting was set to blue with white contour, but the pulsing lighting was orange. I assumed it was just a visual warning that my door was open.

I'll see if I can re-create it tonight to determine whether it was a fluke.
Quoted the text from https://www.bmwblog.com/2019/03/07/v...gh-the-bmw-x7/.

`In this new video, DeMuro pokes around the BMW X7 and gives us a walk-through of all of its little oddities. Some of them are just odd. For instance, when you open the X7’s doors, the ambient lighting blinks red to alert oncoming traffic that a door is open, which isn’t odd in itself. But on the X7, the third-row ambient lighting blinks red as well, whenever a door is opened, even though the third row doesn’t open to traffic. That’s a bit silly but it probably does that because the software doesn’t differentiate the third row side lighting from the doors’.`

This sounds like what your car is doing. Not sure if this is what OP is experiencing.
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The manual says actions such as incoming calls or open doors can trigger dynamic lighting which is what this issue relates to but as near as I can tell the manual does not disclose how the dynamic lighting manifests or a comprehensive list of what triggers it. I’ve reclosed all my doors and it’s still doing it.
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Fixed it. Rebooted iDrive. Odd that this fault persisted after many engine shut offs and lockings.
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