[SteveAus]

I received an interesting call from BMW yesterday telling me that I had a warning light on my car…front and rear sidelights not working.

What had actually happened was, on the day before, I re-coded my car with BimmerCode after a BMW OTA software upgrade.
An idiosyncrasy with BimmerCode after coding is that the you receive a warning that the front and rear sidelights are not working (in fact they do work, but the warning appears).
I had forgotten to switch off the car and lock it, and then unlock the car. This clears the error message. I had driven around for a few minutes with the warning message symbol on the dash.

What intrigued me is that my dealer knew that the warning message had appeared and called me the following day to let me know.

I had not realized that BMW monitors your car so closely and so remotely.