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Originally Posted by 1iwilly
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With this cable, did you have to cut it open and solder pins #7 & #8 together and/or some other hack to get the E53 to show up?
The link for a cable in the OP is to an expired ebay listing, and I would rather get something that is more plug and play. I saw a demo on YouTube for the 1.4 BMW scanner tool with PA Soft and that looked simple to use, but unfortunately I have read that only works up to 2003 models and I have a 2006. There is so much conflicting info out there on the scanning/coding options and much of it seems out of date, but this is a pretty recent thread. I just ordered a BAFX bluetooth OBD2 scanner so I could try out Torque Pro app on my Android phone, but I don't think that will help with what I need to do, so I'm looking for the right cable to work with a laptop as well.
I don't want to do anything real advanced; my main goals are the following, in order of priority:
* Turn off cold check for my halos
* Reset adaptation for after I change my transfer case fluid
* Display transmission temp for when I change my transmission fluid
(I just ordered an infrared thermometer for this, which may work fine)
* May want to change the window roll up options, etc..
* Display and clear codes (Android Torque Pro says it clears codes, but PC based app may be better
My work laptop has Win 7, but I don't want to screw anything up on that, so I'll probably buy a cheap Win XP laptop on Craigslist to dedicate for this and for something to keep in the garage for looking up things on the web.