I retrofitted powerfold mirrors (S313A) to my E46 M3 some time ago but as there isn't a retrofit path in the SSS, my vehicle order (VO) wasn't up to date. So after I bought my GT1 setup I tried to change my vehicle order but on my current version 28, the VO update path needs you to upload the new VO off a disk given to you by BMW, which obviously I don't have. So after a lot of help from a BMW tech I found out how to manually update the VO using the SSS and thought it might be of interest to those following this thread.

Step 1
Start the SSS and instead of selecting your normal car i.e. in my case 3 series, E46, select 8 series, E31. It will then take you to another screen with the full BMW line up and it is here that you can select E46. What this is doing is taking you back to the DIS V43 coding type setup but run through the SSS.

Step 2

First of all I wanted to display my VO, which is something you can't do if you select your car as per the normal procedure when setting up the SSS connection. So after step 1 at this screen, these are the options you are presented with. I selected option 3



Step 3

All of the vehicle order and specs are stored in the instrument cluster. The SSS displays all of the information on the car.





As you can see option 313 isn't there.

Step 4

Once back at the main menu I selected option 1, recoding.



Step 5

Select KOMBI, as that is where the VO is stored.



Step 6

Confirm it is the KOMBI you want to code by pressing yes.



Step 7

Select recode control unit.



Step 8

Read what you have to do later on. Don't worry about this as the current settings are there when you have to re-enter them.



Step 9

It now asks you if you want to code the KOMBI to suit this car only. You can to a test run which doesn't code it to the car. Select yes, to code it to your car.



Step 10

Here you can change the chassis number of the car it is being coded in to. My chassis number came up as default, so I selected no to the change.



Step 11

My VO came up and I selected no (from memory), which basically allows me to go in and edit the VO.



Step 12

My designation code came up, I entered yes.



Step 13

The time criterion came up which is the month and year of manufacture, my details once again came up by default so I entered yes.



Step 14

The next screen goes in to the VO modification screen. I selected option 3, add feature.



Step 15

I wanted to add my option code, refered to as "SA", so I selected this.



Step 16

Using the keypad on the screen I entered in my new SA code i.e. 313, pressing yes after the code entry.



It keeps on looping back to this screen after each entry, so repeat the process if you have more than one entry.



Step 17

Once I had entered all of the option codes I pressed the left point back button and selected recode. The KOMBI coding started.



Step 18

The recoding was completed



Step 19

After the recode I went back in to display the VO and you will see my option addition is the last entry




Step 20

There was another screen in here which i didn't take a photo off, that was to terminate and check the entries. I did this and then it came up with this screen



Step 21

I didn't not follow the instruction in the last step and tried to go straight back in to the SSS and came up with this error



So I exited the SSS and went in to the DIS and did a short test, followed by a full function test of the KOMBI and it showed no faults. I then went back in to the SSS and all was well, it picked up the connection and recognised my car and could read the VO when I pulled up the CKM settings.


All in all it was reasonably straight forward. The only screen I was unsure of was on step 9 when it asked my if I just wanted to do it for this car. It looks like I picked the right option. And that is how you update your VO on an E46, I presume the E53 might be the same.