I've bought a laptop, a stupid K+DCAN cable

Which NCS are you using, NCS Expert or NCS Dummy?

Are you able to get INPA running and communicating with modules?

Does the cable have a switch to connect pins 7 & 8? Ensure there is continuity between pins 7 & 8 on the cable to allow BMW Standard Tools to communicate with all modules.

 

I had INPA connected and the black dot filled in for battery and ignition, so that worked. I do have a pin 7 and 8 switch. I wasnt sure which to use, so i tried it both ways.

 

50s kid did a few videos awhile back in which he does a really good job walking through the process of using NCS Expert and NCS Dummy. Here's a link to one of them. In this video, he's modifying his GM5 but the same principles apply to coding any module. Recommend you give them a watch as they will likely answer a lot of your questions. Afterwards, if you have specific questions, just come back and post those. Good luck

 

Follow Bali's guide to install bmw standard tools

open NCSExpert
Load whatever profile. If you're doing a LED retrofit you'll want factory coding since you're adding the +LED option to the FA and coding the LSZ to default.

Instead of clicking chassis which is wrong follow the below:
1. F1, VIN/ZCS/FA
2. F3, ZCS/FA f. ECU
3. E46
4. AKMB
5. Once you've loaded the VIN press back
6. F1, VIN/ZCS/FA
7. Enter FA
8. E46
9. Add +LEDH to the VO
10. Press back
11. process ECU
12. pick the LSZ
13. Change job to FA_WRITE and execute job
14. process/change ECU - pick AKMB
15. Execute FA_WRITE job
16. process/change ECU - pick LSZ
17. change job to SG_CODIEREN
18. Execute job

Ez. I'm doing that mostly off memory so I might be missing the odd click but you should be able to figure it out.

 

No bueno :/ Everything else is fine, but step 9 I think I am mucking up. I enter FA, then am greeted with "Enter Vin" which is already filled in, with an option to "calculate checksum". if i just click through that i get to a screen which has a box for attribute, chassis, and then a long list of numbers starting with $ before them, i put +LEDH into the attribute box and clicked ok. Thats the only part of your instruction that was different i did everything else you said. just dont know where to find this VO you speak of.

Thanks dude, i appreciate your help here. got an mot soon so need these bulb out errors gone!

 

7. Enter FA
8. E46
9. Add +LEDH to the VO
10. Press back

My understanding is steps 7 to 9 are making changes to the VO, which VO changes are then applied to the LSZ in steps 11 to 13 (FA Write) and then the instrument cluster AKMB in steps 14 to 15.

and then a long list of numbers starting with $ before them, [b[i put +LEDH into the attribute box and clicked ok. [/b]

This I believe is changing the VO. That change then needs to be saved to the akmb and alsz, and to the rest of the modules perhaps.

Thats the only part of your instruction that was different i did everything else you said. just dont know where to find this VO you speak of.

What happens after clicking OK in step 9? Should be able to continue.

 

Yes as above, VO just means vehicle order, same thing as FA string and is just the list of attributes/list of all your cars options. You're adding the LED tail light option to the VO, writing those changes to the AKMB and LSZ and then coding the LSZ module to default settings according to the new VO. Probably a good idea to code the AKMB to default as well.

Which part are you getting stuck on?

 

I hate to go tangential,
but in PASoft, you can simply disable the hot and cold lamp checks, and that'll prevent lamp check errors.

You DO need a different dongle for PASoft, but the software's free.

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