bigx5er, I just had my car re-programmed last Monday. I took delivery on January 29, 2008, and the programming apparently involved 19 separate modules. At least, that is what is included on my service invoice (although the re-programming was done at no charge under warranty). The re-programming took six hours! From the Technician's description, the battery charger they were using failed during the re-programming, and some of it had to be done over again. That might have extended the time somewhat.

All of this was related to the installation of a trailer hitch and the required programming of the trailer control module. All of the other programming has to be brought up to date when that is done.

If anyone has any idea what all of these cryptic codes (CAS, JBE, GW, DME/DDE, EGS, etc.) mean, I would be happy to post the new part No. given for each program control module.

Maybe as a summary, this might help: My "Vehicle data status" was E070-07-09-520, and the "Target data status" was E070-08-09-530. Those numbers sound suspiciously like dates and revision levels. Does anyone on the board know for sure?

Jim M.