Should have added, I believe Carly can do all this too, but it’s 3rd party product (risk?) plus the app is on a subscription model (recurring cost)

ISTA is for diagnosis, resetting services, flashing new modules, etc.

For F series ‘coding’ (I.e, changing how your car behaves) you need ESYS.

If you’re close to Buckinghamshire and you know what you need to change I could probably help (I have the kit but I’m familiar with only my model)

Facebook marketplace?

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I still detail my cars once a year. It’s a full day routine per car. Routine is:
1. Wash with snow form
2. Clay bar to remove any tar etc
3. Polish any scratches out
4. Swirl treatment to clear all washing and wiping swirl marks
5. Wax to seal off

Soft top needs another day of treatment

so I'm in need of replacing my high mounted tail light (water ingress).

RealOEM is no more.
EPC is the new baseline apparently, but that's a dealer only tool.

any other options before calling the dealer?

Hi all, I've just got ESYS and ISTA+ freshly installed and happy to help anyone who might fancy some coding changes or diagnostics. Although, I may have the software but not the skills, so could be a monkey with a knife :rofl: I have of course played with my cars, so far without bricking them, but g...

Our much loved resources that provide access to the BMW parts database across many websites (RealOEM, BMWFans, BMWETK etc) will no longer be updated. BMW have made it a Dealer only tool for which you need access names and passwords. It used to be issued on disk every three months but that has been ...

hello from another world,

I've just dipped my fingers into ESYS after a couple of years yesterday and its throwing out an error as follows (asks for a SoftToken PIN). anyone here familiar with ESYS? there's no PIN and its running on native XP, as it should..

I don’t get it why they stick DSGs in every car, BMW is phasing out dual clutch I think. https://www.thedrive.com/news/38715/bmw-is-dropping-dual-clutch-transmissions-for-8-speed-automatics-even-in-m-cars I had a dual clutch in my A7, atleast it wasn’t a run of the mill being a 6-pot V6 petrol. I ha...

iX test drive (not an i4 though): https://www.bmw.co.uk/en/topics/discover/forms/pdi_bmw_i2625_tda_copy.html?hucid=6e02227b16da687c0462ddb958cd0c290f2faf33328e1576522265c9d46986df&hemaid=921eed24a4e35c7863922e03b00bc0704d9a429b25e1cf57655d65a4d7ae0e59&cid=bmwDM497815&bid=724421631&tl...

Oh the E71 is THAT red beauty? Can’t believe u bought an F46 But then again that’s an upgrade from the scoda I guess

Wow so it’s close to 10 years then since I had my X5! Yeah went off brand for a while didn’t I.. Still have the X6? That was a beauty! Also had a 335 convertible SORN didn’t u? And a SCODA🤦🏻‍♂️😆 I have a merc 220d (mrs’s) apart from the 640i (mine!). So mine doesn’t get kerbed anymore 😜. iX - they’r...