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      06-20-2015, 10:54 PM   #45
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Unless you code your car. I unlocked this feature and it works great.
Correct. Did it too. Here's my car followed by a friend at the track. The flashing comes with hard braking even if the ABS is not involved:

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      06-21-2015, 12:42 AM   #46
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Correct. Did it too. Here's my car followed by a friend at the track. The flashing comes with hard braking even if the ABS is not involved:

Dude that is awesome. I have his coded on my car but I would never know if it worked or not. Nice to see what it actually looks like.
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      06-21-2015, 12:46 AM   #47
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The blinking brake lights are an euro-spec thing. We don't have it in the States.
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Is it possible to code dynamic brake light as outer brake lights blink instead of inner lights?
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      09-11-2015, 12:49 PM   #49
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Is it possible to code dynamic brake light as outer brake lights blink instead of inner lights?
Yes, if I'm not mistaken, this can be done. I believe I've seen it discussed in the coding section before.
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      09-11-2015, 02:51 PM   #50
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Yes, if I'm not mistaken, this can be done. I believe I've seen it discussed in the coding section before.
Do you know what value would be to enable outer light blink?

Thanks!!
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This feature would be great if it were implemented on ALL cars so that drivers could learn and get used to what the extra and flashing lights are for.
BMW doing this just on their cars doesn't do much good other than perhaps get some drivers attention who is behind a BMW...maybe.

The real advancement is using LED brake lights that light up to full brightness faster than standard incandescent bulbs. That fraction of a second to full bright advantage of LED brake lights has been demonstrated to catch drivers attention better.
Coming up to full brightness results in the driver behind the car actually responding a fraction quicker and that can help avoid certain accidents.

Judging from the testing LED brake lights should become a standard requirement in all cars, as a safety feature.

BMW's idea is a good one but needs universal application.
Having a standardized brake lighting set up could help all drivers better judge the braking of the car/s in front of them.
If there were 3 standard lights in every brake light, then the 1st light comes on with light braking like lightly tapping the brake in anticipation or adjusting speed.
The second light comes on during normal braking such as slowing for a light or stop sign.
The third light would come on during a heavy braking situation, calling attention to a potential emergency braking situation.
And there could even be a flashing brake light that would be directly stating,
"FULL BRAKE NOW!"

As it is now with most all cars the brake lights come full-on whether the driver is just one of those arbitrary brakers, who step on their brakes for no known reason, or for an emergency stop. I like the idea of graduated brake lighting combined with the speed to full brightness of LED's.
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Dude that is awesome. I have his coded on my car but I would never know if it worked or not. Nice to see what it actually looks like.
I also have it coded on mine, sadly i was never been able to witness it...
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This feature would be great if it were implemented on ALL cars so that drivers could learn and get used to what the extra and flashing lights are for.
BMW doing this just on their cars doesn't do much good other than perhaps get some drivers attention who is behind a BMW...maybe.

The real advancement is using LED brake lights that light up to full brightness faster than standard incandescent bulbs. That fraction of a second to full bright advantage of LED brake lights has been demonstrated to catch drivers attention better.
Coming up to full brightness results in the driver behind the car actually responding a fraction quicker and that can help avoid certain accidents.

Judging from the testing LED brake lights should become a standard requirement in all cars, as a safety feature.

BMW's idea is a good one but needs universal application.
Having a standardized brake lighting set up could help all drivers better judge the braking of the car/s in front of them.
If there were 3 standard lights in every brake light, then the 1st light comes on with light braking like lightly tapping the brake in anticipation or adjusting speed.
The second light comes on during normal braking such as slowing for a light or stop sign.
The third light would come on during a heavy braking situation, calling attention to a potential emergency braking situation.
And there could even be a flashing brake light that would be directly stating,
"FULL BRAKE NOW!"

As it is now with most all cars the brake lights come full-on whether the driver is just one of those arbitrary brakers, who step on their brakes for no known reason, or for an emergency stop. I like the idea of graduated brake lighting combined with the speed to full brightness of LED's.
I did replaced both blinker and brake light to LED bulb, and I bought them from Japan, they are one of brightest, called cree led, but even with that, I had people bumped into my tail, so when you have led bulbs replaced and if it is possible to code brake force display blink outer light instead of inner, it will be great, and I have seen couple video clips, people with F30 on the track, their outer light was blinking, not sure if it is in euro tho, but anyway, I think that can be done by coding, just not sure where to change the value.
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Anyone know how to change the deceleration value required to trigger the dynamic lights?
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      09-11-2015, 06:34 PM   #55
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Anyone know how to change the deceleration value required to trigger the dynamic lights?
should be this one

http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...rbarer_ausgang
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I also have it coded on mine, sadly i was never been able to witness it...
I have a video of mine working.
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I checked these, found none of them to be 100% accurate in the F30. Found a lot of ESS options to change, translated all of them, none of them turned out to be the deceleration rate on the F30.
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Honestly the best way I found out that mine were working was go down an empty, poorly lit parking lot at night and floor it, then slam on the brakes and pay attention to the 3rd brake light, it's faint, but of you're actually paying attention to the light, you'll see it flash.
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Honestly the best way I found out that mine were working was go down an empty, poorly lit parking lot at night and floor it, then slam on the brakes and pay attention to the 3rd brake light, it's faint, but of you're actually paying attention to the light, you'll see it flash.
It flashes with that code, but only with inner light, the light attached with truck, what I was trying to do is to figure out how to make outer light blink too instead of just inner light.
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My outers flash if I remember right, I'm not real sure though
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My outers flash if I remember right, I'm not real sure though
Would you mind check it? I talked to a lot ppl w/ F30, none of them got outer brake light blink so far
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Do you know what value would be to enable outer light blink?

Thanks!!
Sorry, I don't. I checked with the person who normally does my coding and he doesn't either
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Girlfriend confirmed that it is my inners that flash, not the outers. I figured since I have rear fogs enabled, that it would change to the outers.
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Girlfriend confirmed that it is my inners that flash, not the outers. I figured since I have rear fogs enabled, that it would change to the outers.
so you are saying if i have rear fog light enabled, then it will make the outer light blink when brake hard?
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Page 105 of US manual. During heavy brake application, the inner brake lamps light up in addition. So no blinking.
This can be coded from inner lights to flashing (I did).
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This can be coded from inner lights to flashing (I did).
How about outer light blinking?
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