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Originally Posted by dc_bmw
Thanks shawnsheridan.
This procedure makes me think that the car connects to a bmw server with an incorrect VIN. This would make it illegal?
Can you confirm the car connects to bmw servers?
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I didn't go to law school, and I'm not going to speculate on matters of law, although I would imagine someone overly concerned about it may also want to avoid using E-Sys all together as well.
However, to answer your question regarding the Portal and VIN, Yes, and No. It connects one time only with the Fake VIN to establish you are authorized to use, and to provision your car to use the BMW Live Portal Server. After that initial connection, it uses the Portal for data, but the VIN isn't used, which is why you set it back to your Real VIN.