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Originally Posted by Frogman
Well, I decided that rather than write up a long and mostly duplicate procedure of things that are already in other instructions, I'll just try to describe the procedure here. It's only a few different steps from normal coding operations.
1. Before you try to do anything else, you need to to change some E-Sys settings.
Start E-Sys and click on Options, then Settings... A settings window will be displayed, click on the Options tab. You need to UNCHECK the "Update VCM after TAL execution" and "Update MSM after TAL execution" switches (Thanks Shawn!). This prevents Code/FDL Code operations from writing modified FA's back to the car. It should look like this:
Now proceed to connect to the car and then go to the Expert Mode, Coding like normal.
2. Read the Vehicle Order and the SVT as usual.
3. Now, in the Vehicle Order section, click Save and save the file to disk. Saving the VO will enable the Edit button.
4. Click on the Edit button. This will load the FA editor. Edit the FA as needed (in this case, remove 5AP and 8S4, or in the case of enabling EBT, change 6NH to 6NK or 6NS) and click on the Blue Floppy icon on the toolbar to save the changes to the HDD. Then click the Green Left Arrow Icon on the toolbar to go back to expert coding mode.
5. A window will pop up asking if you want to reload the FA into the coding window. You do want to reload the FA, so click Yes.
E-Sys will now return to the Coding module and will be loaded with the modified FA.
6. You can now activate the FA and VO Code the necessary ECU's.
For Glare Free High Beams, VO Code FEM_BODY and FLA/KAFAS2 (depending on what you have).
For Enhanced Bluetooth VO Code CMB_MEDIA and HU_CIC/HU_ENTRY or just HU_NBT (depending on what you have).
The modified FA will be used to initialize the ECU settings that you VO code, but the modified FA will not be written back to the car.
7. If any of the ECU's you just VO coded had previous custom FDL coding, then these FDL setting changes will have to be re-applied. VO Coding resets all ECU FDL settings back to factory default, which is why the ECU's are VO coded in the first place!
If you want/need to write a modified FA to the car some some reason, you can still use the "How to change FA in F-series car" procedure. See :
http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...18&postcount=2 |
Tried Frogman's method this past weekend on cinetic's F31 with DA+ (KAFAS). We couldn't get glare-free HBA working without resorting to writing the modified FA back to the car, and then VO coding the FEM_BODY and KAFAS modules.
After we finally got the glare-free HBA working, i got to experience what it felt to be driving in front of one. When the HBA was engaged, whether it was both headlamps in high beam mode or just one, looking back in the rearview mirror, it's definitely brighter but not glaringly so. If a car is not equipped with auto-dimming mirrors, i wonder how it would feel to be driving in front of a vehicle with the HBA engaged.