M5 E60 Cluster
10-20-2007, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by drantispy' post='481835' date='Oct 15 2007, 09:00 PM
Miles
Miles :thumbsdown:
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11-09-2007, 06:11 AM
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Originally Posted by drantispy' post='492147' date='Nov 9 2007, 08:50 AM
Help needed
BMW agreed to help me with the retrofit of my M5 cluster. Does anyone know how to guide them?
BMW agreed to help me with the retrofit of my M5 cluster. Does anyone know how to guide them?
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11-09-2007, 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Rudy' post='492182' date='Nov 9 2007, 05:11 PM
Did you see this?
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11-12-2007, 12:12 AM
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Originally Posted by drantispy' post='492147' date='Nov 9 2007, 02:50 PM
Help needed
BMW agreed to help me with the retrofit of my M5 cluster. Does anyone know how to guide them?
BMW agreed to help me with the retrofit of my M5 cluster. Does anyone know how to guide them?
Today is the day: come on, drantispy's dealer!
11-12-2007, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by AlexFW' post='493168' date='Nov 12 2007, 10:12 AM
Today is the day: come on, drantispy's dealer!
let's see...
11-12-2007, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by andy545' post='493296' date='Nov 12 2007, 09:13 PM
I'll be surprised if his dealer can do it. It requires hardware they normally don't carry.
let's see...
let's see...
I have bad news
BMW couldnt recode the M5 cluster. They said its impossible to make it work since my car is not an M5. The usual story all over again!I insisted that i knew people who have done it in other countries and the M5 cluster works perfectly.
Their excuse was that they have to contact BMW Germany, asking to reprogram the car or the cluster and since my car has no problem they cant request anything like that.
Finally we concluded that they will make their homework, study hard and with the new year they will try to recode it
One thing i cant understand is why they have to take permision from BMW Germany to recode any car or a particular item.
Its just a simple cluster which needs coding to work.
11-12-2007, 02:31 PM
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BMW AG owns the legal rights to the specific hardware/software. Plus to keep track what car's history is.
Forget it, your dealer will have an impossible time to get this working. He is going down the wrong road. The people who know about this have the specific hardware and are performing an 'ilegal' coding as to say...it IS however possible and the cluster assumes an identity same as your stock. Only catch is you can't just send them the cluster - you need the whole car present as you need info passed through the CAS & DME.
There's gotta be a smart cat there who can do it, no ?
Forget it, your dealer will have an impossible time to get this working. He is going down the wrong road. The people who know about this have the specific hardware and are performing an 'ilegal' coding as to say...it IS however possible and the cluster assumes an identity same as your stock. Only catch is you can't just send them the cluster - you need the whole car present as you need info passed through the CAS & DME.
There's gotta be a smart cat there who can do it, no ?
12-04-2007, 01:35 PM
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If I remember correctly, the BMW instrument cluster stores your mileage as well as your option list.
They store things like that in several spots of the car to make it more difficult to reprogram mileage (I don't know the english word for "terugdraaien", car sellers that put a lower mileage on the car to be able to ask more money).
It won't be easy. However, if it's stored in a seperate EEPROM chip (something like 24Cxx or 96Cxx) you can try swapping that chip with the one that came from your original cluster. It's an 8 pin device, not that difficult to solder.
They store things like that in several spots of the car to make it more difficult to reprogram mileage (I don't know the english word for "terugdraaien", car sellers that put a lower mileage on the car to be able to ask more money).
It won't be easy. However, if it's stored in a seperate EEPROM chip (something like 24Cxx or 96Cxx) you can try swapping that chip with the one that came from your original cluster. It's an 8 pin device, not that difficult to solder.