Folding Mirrors

[Superdaws]

Originally Posted by Eddie135

Hi Superclaws & BiMou

Let me know. I am interested as well.

Willing to share the cost.

Ive already got a cable and coded my E70 sucsessfully mate. Just gotta get onto the 135 soon.

Biggest pain in the bum from my perspective was getting the cable all setup and communicating correctly on the laptop eith 64 bit OS. NCSEXPER the program used to code doesnt work on 64bit OS so u need to run a virtual 32 bit windows. The coding part itself aint difficult.

[RaihaX]

Originally Posted by BiMou

No worries, I'll send you a pm when I get the cable and confirm it all works.

I just lowballed $80 and hopefully he accepts

[x5mad]

Originally Posted by Superdaws

Im not an expert, but i dont think that one will work on newer than 2010 because of pin 7 and 8 being linked. The new cars with ethernet/internet capability need pin 7 and 8 unlinked to work. most of the good cables come with the pins unlinked and with an adaptoer to plug on if you need to use it on older cars. Read up on it...

Ah.. Slightly different from your original reply saying that it doesnt work.

To clear things up for other members yes you're right about it not working on 2010 models but only as is.

Ie it will work with cars up till 2008. If you want to code newer cars especially ones with the newer CIC (Current Idrive) you will need to remove pin 8, which most people do by just desoldering that pin.

So if you need to work on all model years (1998 - present) then a good idea to buy a cable with the adaptor that you mention, however they are more expensive.

If you have newer models 2009+ then just desolder pin 8.

However for my purposes all 3 of my cars are 2008 and older so this cable should be fine. Cant wait to start with the tinkering! Especially the option to tie in the sunroof with the rainsensors so that the sunroof closes when it detects rain, and in this respect I am hoping it can be done for the convertible top too.

[Eddie135]

Originally Posted by Superdaws

Ive already got a cable and coded my E70 sucsessfully mate. Just gotta get onto the 135 soon.

Biggest pain in the bum from my perspective was getting the cable all setup and communicating correctly on the laptop eith 64 bit OS. NCSEXPER the program used to code doesnt work on 64bit OS so u need to run a virtual 32 bit windows. The coding part itself aint difficult.

Cool, keep me posted.

[Eddie135]

Originally Posted by x5mad

Ah.. Slightly different from your original reply saying that it doesnt work.

To clear things up for other members yes you're right about it not working on 2010 models but only as is.

Ie it will work with cars up till 2008. If you want to code newer cars especially ones with the newer CIC (Current Idrive) you will need to remove pin 8, which most people do by just desoldering that pin.

So if you need to work on all model years (1998 - present) then a good idea to buy a cable with the adaptor that you mention, however they are more expensive.

If you have newer models 2009+ then just desolder pin 8.

However for my purposes all 3 of my cars are 2008 and older so this cable should be fine. Cant wait to start with the tinkering! Especially the option to tie in the sunroof with the rainsensors so that the sunroof closes when it detects rain, and in this respect I am hoping it can be done for the convertible top too.

Would love to have the sunroof option of automatic closure when it detects rain, awesome!

[135iUSN]

Eddie135

I just found out my R32 has this feature using VAGCOM, check off a few boxes in the coding for the rain sensor function so it keeps the sensor active for 24 hours and will close windows/sunroof once it detects rain. After 24hrs it will roll up windows and S/R and shuts down the sensor down to safe battery drain.

Hope we figure this out for the 135 - I'm in for a cable to make a few edits

[Eddie135]

Thanks 135iUSN

[denfion]

so my car is built 08 but with new idrive, can I still use that cable or I need to buy adapter/desolder?

[Superdaws]

Successfully coded the 135i today removing Idrive disclaimers, komfort key eject and digital speedo. It did return errors at the end of the coding process due to connectivity, but i think it was something to do with hav ing the procede on the car as well, cause the coding worked fine even with the error.

[Eddie135]

Originally Posted by Superdaws

Successfully coded the 135i today removing Idrive disclaimers, komfort key eject and digital speedo. It did return errors at the end of the coding process due to connectivity, but i think it was something to do with hav ing the procede on the car as well, cause the coding worked fine even with the error.

Good to know,

Can the coding remove self check on LED lights. Just recently installed LED light but the system is doing self check when ignition is on causing flickering, nothing major but annoying.

[Superdaws]

Today i coded in the Angel Eyes to a higher brightness, not max as it will go, but they are set to default "level 4" (wert_04) and i bumped it up to level 7 out of 9. Looks really good now.

For those with piggies, i put my procede into "passthrough" before i began coding and i didnt get the connection errors i recieved before, so im guessing that had something to do with it, or maybe completely unrelated....

[Superdaws]

Originally Posted by Eddie135

Good to know,

Can the coding remove self check on LED lights. Just recently installed LED light but the system is doing self check when ignition is on causing flickering, nothing major but annoying.

Yep you can remove checks for globes... prvents nuisance faults for aftermarket globes, i assume thats what u mean? Not sure if it rectifies flickering, someone else may know...

[Eddie135]

Originally Posted by Superdaws

Yep you can remove checks for globes... prvents nuisance faults for aftermarket globes, i assume thats what u mean? Not sure if it rectifies flickering, someone else may know...

Yes, that is what I mean.
Maybe we should catch up one day to do the coding.

With increasing the level brightness from 4 to 7, will it stressed the angel eyes too much.

I presume you are running Lux V3 at the moment same as me.

[Superdaws]

Originally Posted by Eddie135

Yes, that is what I mean.
Maybe we should catch up one day to do the coding.

With increasing the level brightness from 4 to 7, will it stressed the angel eyes too much.

I presume you are running Lux V3 at the moment same as me.

Yeah running Lux, dont know about "wearing them out". I doubt it, brightness increase wasnt much. I dont know the answer though, depends on the quality of the LUX product i guess...

[x5mad]

Woohoo finally got my cable after australia post had it for over a week and didnt even leave a slip!. Postage from UK was fast, 3 days I think.

Anyways followed the instructions but some of it was poorly written so took me a while to figure out where i was going wrong.

After 2 hours of head scratching have managed to remove the idrive disclaimer on the x5 and activated the digital speedo.



Alas have to put it down for now as have other things need attending to.

[Harlequin]

Don't suppose you're in Brisbane are you mate? Really wanna get rid of the iDrive nag screen...

[x5mad]

I would give it a go but I have a feeling my cable wont work on cars with the newer Idrive. It needs a different cable or I would need to desolder one of the connectors - dont think it would be easy to then resolder!

[B-Moose]

An update to this thread:

I received my cable a few wks ago (works well) and coded my car today. Overall not too difficult although I got stuck before working out you had to upgrade the data files to access the CIC module for the idrive related settings. The coding I did:
- Remove idrive disclaimer
- DVD in motion (hardest part to do)
- Digital speed display
- Remove seatbelt gongs
- Disable windows safety feature
- Wipers complete motion to bottom when engine switched off
- Windows and sunroof close with fob (was already on by default)
- Mirrors fold in (I did this then realised my car doesn't have folding mirrors, it's an option with anti-dazzle mirrors)

[135iUSN]

what did you buy again? is is specific to AU cars?

[swallowtail]

Originally Posted by Harlequin

Don't suppose you're in Brisbane are you mate? Really wanna get rid of the iDrive nag screen...

Harlequin, I am in Brisbane, my wife has a 123d, and I am picking up a 2012 X3 next week. If we can find out what cable is the one to buy I will absolutely get one, and we can have a go at working this out...

I had a Passat R36 before, and had all sorts of stuff code changed using VAGCOM. WIll absolutely need to get rid of the seatbelt gong, iDrive warning, etc...

Simon.

[swallowtail]

OK, I just bought this cable:

http://www.one-stop-electronics.com/...&product_id=16

So will see how that goes.

[_Ryan_]

Originally Posted by RaihaX

I just lowballed $80 and hopefully he accepts

Let me know how you go, I want to do the digital speedo and brighten up the angel eyes.

Can't be that hard, but I can't justify paying for a cable to use once, happy to flick some cash your way to borrow it.