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Old 12-08-2018, 08:30 PM
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I ordered an lcm III from a place in Colorado. As soon as I plugged it in, it was clear this replacement was bad (random lights, unresponsive, and incommunicado).

Got a refund and after pondering my options, I ordered an lcm iv from England. It took a couple weeks, but arrived today. Now I really thought I would have to code it with my vin at a minimum, but it appears to be plug-n-play. I plugged it it and thus far everything works great. The only thing I have noticed is I no longer have DRLs. That and in the check control text it tells me to check my “rear fog lights”. WTH is that???

Anyway, auto lights work, all running lights as they should, head and brights, backups, brake, hazards, the oil life thingy, the message center is back. Everything. I simply cannot find any reason to mess with a good thing?

I can interrogate it and see the vin of the car the module came out of, but since it works as designed I see no reason to mess with it. I did try to write my vin to it using ncs expert like I have with other modules like EWS, but ncs gave me some cryptic error. I have scanner 1.4 but have never gotten it to work. It seems to want drivers that I have no idea where to get or install, so I threw in the towel on that and the possibility of reconciling mileage.

So, given I was ready to junk the car vs put money into it, and I really could not care less about a tamper dot, with everything back to working like before the other one caught fire, can anyone think of any reason I should continue trying to molest something that’s working well?

Oh, and here is a weird thing I didn’t expect. The vin digits on my car add up to “10” so that’s what I use when unlocking the dash display tests. While the LCM was out of the car, that entire part of the display was completely absent. (Yes, I tooled around with no LCM). Now the replacement LCM has a completely different vin in it, but lo and behold I can unlock that display still using the “10” from the actual vin, even though the LCM is the “check” module and reports a different vin. That’s wild.

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Old 12-08-2018, 09:04 PM
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Do you have the tamper dot on your mileage now? Also, your european LCM had the rear fog enable, you will need to disable it with NCS Expert. You could also load a blank LCM .man file and it will code it to your options on your car. You will also need BMW Scanner 1.4 to reprogram the VIN in your replacement LCM if you have the tamper dot.

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Old 12-08-2018, 09:24 PM
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I have the tamper dot. I cannot think of any reason that would concern me. I’m interested solely in functionality.

I cannot get Scanner 1.4 to talk to a USB port. I’ve tried in an old XP computer, and in a win 10 computer.

NCS Expert won’t write to this LCM. Maybe tomorrow I will post the error it gives me and see what people think. The issue with NCS is unique to this module, as I can communicate with other modules. Until NCS agrees to talk to this LCM, there’s no sense it trying to turn off the rear fog lights. But then, nothing about that interferes with the functionality of the car for this winter, so...

Now, INPA will communicate with this LCM just fine, but of course I cannot change anything with that. Just interesting that it has no issues polling the module and displaying its various data.
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Old 12-08-2018, 09:34 PM
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Used LCM will plug right in a work exactly like the car it was programmed to. If you can live with the check fog light warning and tamper dot you're good to go. Personally that kind of stuff drives me crazy until I get it sorted perfectly.
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Old 12-08-2018, 09:39 PM
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I kinda wanted my DRLs so I probably won’t give up, but the fact it’s all working otherwise as plugged in means I have time to get things sorted out. The X5 is what I don’t worry about driving in the winter (if someone is going to blow an icy stop sign, I want to be in a 17 year old X5, not my newer truck or car)

Besides, even as a 2002 I think this has like a bazillion air bags and stuff...

And WHAT are rear fog lights???
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Its actually not hard to roll the odometer back. I found out how to do it by accident but will not repeat how. Not getting into that.

I was swapping my 323i from auto to a manual trans and trying to code old trans out and lost 100,000 miles off the odometer
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Its actually not hard to roll the odometer back. I found out how to do it by accident but will not repeat how. Not getting into that.

I was swapping my 323i from auto to a manual trans and trying to code old trans out and lost 100,000 miles off the odometer


My zhp has a tamper dot because the original lcm got damaged and replaced.
Could you code the lcm to match he cars vin to remove the tamper dot for me. Pretty please.


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My zhp has a tamper dot because the original lcm got damaged and replaced.
Could you code the lcm to match he cars vin to remove the tamper dot for me. Pretty please.


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It's easy but I'd be happy to help. You need BMW Scanner 1.4 and a laptop If you have it follow these instructions.

I upgraded my E46 LCM for triple blink and brake force display. Took about 15 minutes.

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I think the bigger challenge will be getting BMW Scanner to communicate with a USB port. That’s where I got stymied.
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