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Originally Posted by Harlequin
Brisbane BMW charged me $400 for labour. They initially tried to quote a lot more as the install instructions list a coding time of UP TO 12hrs and they were planning to charge me labour for that whole period.
That coding time is worst case scenario if your car's DME is way out of date. The coding for mine took about 1.5 hrs - and I refused to pay labour for that...
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That's not even how coding works - it's not on a car by car basis, it's almost literally 'hi-fi installed' with some fancy words and commands around it
For people that know how, it's literally a few minutes, most of which is waiting for it to sort itself out
I don't even really understand how it would take 12 hours to fully update the DME anyway, it's a 7xxkb file over a system that works at what.. 2mbit? You can extract and reflash it yourself in seconds