[proTUNING Freaks]

OBD unlock is in testing and we'll have more details to share soon. Short answer is anyone looking to go the OBD unlock route instead of bench flash will be able to do so at home or at any of our supporting dealer locations.

Unlocking over OBD does not perform a full readout like unlocking on bench does. Currently the only way to fully restore any given DME back to full stock software including flash counters is still via open/bench flash and for that reason we'll be offering both options still to end users depending on their needs.

There are a few more cool features on the horizon very soon but we felt this one needed to be announced first. Everyone's doing it!

[UltraMagneticAL]

i was actually thinking when you would be doing this. lol when can we expect it to be ready? i've been holding out for something like this

[MR RIZK]

Coupled with the end user tuning editor this is pretty cool. Just need real time tuning and the ability to offset tables against a flex fuel sensor input.. Hope this is some of the cool features on the horizon.. hint hint

Keep up the awesome progress..

[horsepower_and_hounds]

Thanks for being upfront about the flash back to stock...... I don't remember VF/Hex stating that issue

[NOLAGUY]

Do you have a time frame? There are tons of people anxiously awaiting this.

[mike@x-ph.com]

Any estimate on when it will be available?

[VF-Engineering]

Originally Posted by m2ruder

Thanks for being upfront about the flash back to stock...... I don't remember VF/Hex stating that issue

"Restoring" and ECU, and flashing back to stock are two very
different functions.

We've stated (and discussed in detail) that you cannot obtain
a full boot-read back up through the OBDII port, and the various
reasons why it may still be desirable for some customer to have a
full bench unlock; which is why we are excited that we can offer
both options!


*Please do not reply here as we are not looking to "thread jack".
we just wanted to clarify that information as the comment was
specific to our product.

[MTWO]

Thread jack

/thread

[FSociety]

Copy n Pasting what they wrote on F80's thread

Hey guys, really sorry for lack of updates here as most of our staff is away until Jan. 2nd and we're trying our best given the holidays.

BM3 OBD unlock is coming very soon. While away on non-stop 15 hour flights we've managed to kill lots of time by expanding our DME Read feature that's part of the Diagnostics screen. It hasn't yet been pushed out as we don't want to break something unexpectedly until we're fully staffed again come week of Jan. 2nd. If you've followed our updates through the initial BM3 release back in late 2015 early 2016 you'd know that given how most of this work reverse engineering, sometimes days go by without making much progress, and then, in just a few hours or even a few minutes at times, a glimpse of a solution shows itself which ends up unfolding itself into a new solution/feature or even a change to the approach on how something is done so it could be improved upon.

Current tools/cables released that have OBD unlock support already such as Magic Motorsports, Frieling (many vendors that announced OBD unlock on this forum use this tool provider), CMD, can produce full 4MB readout files that can be used to activate and run with BM3. BM3's DME read feature that has been expanded recently will provide those already unlocked by some tuner out there (regardless of method) an easy way to activate without pulling the DME again as well which will make it super easy to get on board with it, get custom tuned and use anything in BM3 you'd like.

More to follow very soon...

http://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sho...7&postcount=89

[lax01]

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[NOLAGUY]

Any update? BM3 is my first choice but they are very late to the party.

[Z3787]

+1 for MHD. HC Performance is already a great option for OBD flashing.

[UltraMagneticAL]

Originally Posted by NOLAGUY

Any update? BM3 is my first choice but they are very late to the party.

lol right? I just went ahead and bench flashed mine last week lol

[FSociety]

Originally Posted by UltraMagneticAL

lol right? I just went ahead and bench flashed mine last week lol

Bench still has its advantages over all these other OBDII flashing ;-) they lack!

PTF is working heavily on their OBDII, good things dont happen over night.