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Originally Posted by faz
Good recap of your experience. 
I don't have Carly, and given the stories I have read with the FRM footwell module being bricked during programming etc. I don't see myself fooling around too much with programming, so at this time I have no intention of getting Carly or similar.
My belt / restraint system error has been something that has been there for a while, (car showing erroneously that a passenger is sitting on the seat and should have the seatbelt on, during hot days with no passenger on the seat.) BMW couldn't find a fault code so they didn't do much about it. I have a feeling that the black/yellow wire connector that I mentioned above might have been loose to begin with and caused those errors/problems , and showed similar issue now. But after it was unplugged and replugged, the error went away and my wife tells me that she is not needing to put the passenger seatbelt on (with no passengers) in the last two days, so that is (so far) good news. |
Lets not confuse the issues: nobody has ever reported a 'bricking' of the FRM with Carly when registering a battery. (If you know of any such events it would be good to post it.)
Carly is- at the most simple use- a code reader. You can add a battery registration, and you can do programming- if you want. You dont need to 'do programming' if all youi want is to register the battery.
Interesting that the seat belt drama was some other existing condition....could be related to low battery charge, cud be related to this black and yellow wire (im too lazy to pull up a schematic to see what they are for,,,,)