Had one of my tech friends at work yesterday hook her up to the diag machine... The exact faults were DSC unit failure, DSC connector failure. The troubleshoot seemed to suggest it could possibly be a fuse, however he almost guaranteed me it was the DSC unit. I was like "ok, let me see the part cost" (I'm so ignorant and lost to the world at this moment). I searched the part number... ~$2700..............
He said the same unit was used on the 3ers that had the issue with this as stated earlier.
I believe that since my 1er is an '08 and has ~85k, it will most likely be a common issue on the 1er, I am just getting it first.
Good luck!