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Originally Posted by Clavurion
I understood they are just reupholstered. Just for future reference to someone doing the same I mentioned that the seat mat would be wise to renew at that point.
Every E53 has that small module for seat mat at rear bottom of the seat base. Even my 9/2006 manufactured does. So I don't know why it was missing on your seat.
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I agree completely. Wish I would have researched that aspect of my seat project a bit more, but waddya going to do. Not the first time I’ve had to find a work around. Also, RealOEM lists the some of the sensor pads as discontinued.
I did sort out that the seats are from an E70. I thought they were from a 2006 facelifted E53 but the lack of the small module under the seat and the fact that the system has 3 wires (versus 2) that dont match the colors in my Bentley wiring diagrams, threw me off. I recalled however, that I have a BMW wiring diagram app on my phone and after some searching, voila…e70 matches.
So that said, what to do? Guy in Lithuania sells e70 occupancy emulators, which are cheap and I’ll probably order one as a backup. No small kids or car seats will be in the front seat the x5 unless I’ve picked up a random family and we are all fleeing zombie hordes.
Not my first choice though as I’d rather re-program the module to simply ignore the occupancy pad. This is definitely possible with NCS so I watched a few videos yesterday and plugged in to the beast with a sense of optimism that I was finally going to start learning to code my BMW. While INPA worked like a champ, I didn’t get past the module loading step on NCS Dummy, which tells me that my VIN is incorrect, or something like that. I put a call into my Indy to see if he had any experience with this stuff and would take a crack at it.
My new foxwell 710 does have some occupancy sensor programming options, but they quickly got complicated as I worked through the menus, so I’m going to do some additional research before trying this.
If we wanted easy we’d buy Toyotas.