help! power outage during cobb flash...bricked?
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help! power outage during cobb flash...bricked?
08 e61 535xi
total rookie mistake....but i have done this before and it went just fine....
my car is now sitting dead. cobb goes into restore mode and just hangs on initialization....
now WTF do i do?
i'm about to start breaking things !?!@!
total rookie mistake....but i have done this before and it went just fine....
my car is now sitting dead. cobb goes into restore mode and just hangs on initialization....
now WTF do i do?
i'm about to start breaking things !?!@!
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Model Year: 2008
car is back to normal and running !
turns out this is a nuance with the way the cobb works. you cant flash your car while it is being jumped from another car. you *have* to hook the battery to a charger in the case of a power outage or otherwise recharge your battery ....
the official response:
Jumping the car using another vehicle won't typically deliver the same steady power that a charger would, and that's why we'd want to use that. We need to increase the car battery's charge, not just start the car, and that's the entire difference.
turns out this is a nuance with the way the cobb works. you cant flash your car while it is being jumped from another car. you *have* to hook the battery to a charger in the case of a power outage or otherwise recharge your battery ....
the official response:
Jumping the car using another vehicle won't typically deliver the same steady power that a charger would, and that's why we'd want to use that. We need to increase the car battery's charge, not just start the car, and that's the entire difference.
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