where would one look to find this Romanian fella peddling his wares?

See the following:

BMW USB OBD Diagnostic Cable Inpa Ediabas Dis SSS GT1 | eBay


Be sure to read the requirements of the laptop you will need.

order up! thank you so much.

laptop requirements are pretty straightforward other than the THIRTY FOUR gigabyte requirement for the hard drive space. I guess I'll just load it up on my TunerStudio machine. 34GB! that's WAY larger than the entire Adobe Creative Suite.

question, is there a learning curve with the software. i am a computer guy so i can figure most things out but I've installed TIS on my computer before and found it 'less than intuitive'.

AFAIK, SSSProgman is the one program that really eats up the space. You should be alright if you install everything but SSS.

There is a slight learning curve but I don't think its anything too tough once you start playing around with it, DIS is pretty straightforward.

If you got it running and are having problems with any of the programs let me know I can try to help, or post up here.

excellent. thank you!

I had no instructions. I fired it up and found out how to see some things. I also inadvertently deleted the firmware on my nav so I don't recommend that approach.

I am computer literate to the point it doesn't scare me to hit a button and see what happens as I can usually figure it out, but am also an Apple fanatic. I was windows based for many years but have tried to forget as much of that knowledge as possible so that has hampered progress.

There is a INPA BMW based forum that is helpful, even for the loading of the software. I have yet to ask questions as I am sure with the depth of the threads I have read what I need is somewhere there if I can figure out the right search words. This is the one I have been going: BMW forum. Diagnostics, coding, programming, repair BMW vehicles. - Powered by vBulletin The were lots of results from my Google search so I don't know if this is the recommended source for info though there is lots there.

Be patient when loading the software. It took a long time for some parts of the load to initiate, enough that I thought it was not working and ejected the disc and started over. For some loading the software has been a breeze and obviously by all the load questions on the INPA forum it has been a bear for many others.

Where do I learn what the INPA graphs should read if all is normal? As one example, the rough page. Is there a acceptable range of rough or should all bars be at zero?

Where do I find the proper diagnostic sequences to narrow down the source of the problem. As an example, if a cylinder is out of the rough acceptable range what is the next step to find out why?

I wandered around in INPA looking for engine error codes. I think I found the location but how do I know for sure--there were no errors there so I don't know if I was in the wrong place or there were really no errors.

Is there a using INPA for dummies somewhere?

I actually use DIS / GT1 for most of my diagnostics and testing, I haven't much experience with INPA yet because I haven't really needed to use it. I like DIS better because you can read each specific fault code and carry out a test plan for each.

I will try that program.

Thanks for responding.

Shoot me a PM if you have any issues with DIS man, glad to help a member out!