Originally Posted by finagle69 (Post 826244)

I took the time to learn how to do this myself. My $100 investment in the cable was well worth it to me. And I didn't even blow up my car!! Win-Win.

Originally Posted by finagle69 (Post 826255)

Sure thing.

You have to commit yourself to spending a LOT of time researching, searching forums, trying to use Google Translate for Russian and certainly German translations.

You have to purchase an OBD2 cable. You have to download specific programs and updates for them. You have to pull your hair out at trying to figure out why things aren't working as they should. Once you get it working, it's bliss. The hardest part for me was getting the car to talk to the laptop. Basically the initial handshaking stage was the toughest.

When I first started to learn about it, there was no consolidated place for information. It was incredibly scattered. But now, there is a forum that is devoted to coding knowledge.

bmwcoding (dot) com


I do not work for them, nor am I affiliated with them in any capacity aside from having registered to use their forums.