BMW and M Power Owners

Diagro said:
Today, bmw fitted the the ATM unit.
Applied the mppsk map.

In the process, they removed these features:
- Single press boot closing.
- Folding mirrors on lock.
- Apple car play
- Android mirroring
- Navigation... yes... the disabled my Navigation...
- voice control

Gee thanks BMW

At least the MyBMW app works... sigh
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Lol. They did not disable the navigation. Let me guess, it says "loading"?

If the coder that had provided your "hacked" car play activation had provided proper instructions (or you actually read them), it's very explicit that you MUST disable car play before you take the car into the dealership. Basically, hacked car play replaces the legitimate fsc (license) for navigation with a false one that tricks the car into thinking it has car play.

When a proper software update is done, it can't restore the hacked one, and it doesn't have the legitimate one available either.

This exact thing happened to me because my coder didn't tell me to remove it before going into the dealer.

A fix is to just re-enable car play (mine was a self code tool so I could do that easily), but you can never ever then remove it as the backed up fsc doesn't match the car version antmore. Ultimately I paid a coder that does know what they're doing to buy me an new fsc pack from BMW for about 20 quid and load it properly onto the car.


This is incredibly well documented, and I'm fairly sure it's even been talked about in this thread.

Dandle said:
Be careful with software coding. I used an FSC code from ebay to enable full screen carplay on my 2018 X3, when it went in for repairs after being stolen they had to code a new TCU into the car after the old one was ripped out. The full screen carplay FSC code screwed up the software load and the whole car had to be reloaded with a new FSC code supplied by BMW (this took nearly three weeks to arrive). I played ignorant as to what the issue could be but they were fishing for software mods, luckily they couldn't do anything but reload the whole car and couldn't integrate it.
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Lol, dandled literally warned you about this exact thing and now you're surprised?
 
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[TW]Fox said:
But Carplay (This was optional) and Screen mirroring (Not sure if this was available on these?) isn't and this is what causes issues when the software is updated.
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Being an F Series car, I don't think you can officially get CarPlay unless it's on iDrive 6 or newer (late 2017 onwards). Has to be coded otherwise - which may void warranty; same for full screen CarPlay.
 
rG-tom said:
Lol. They did not disable the navigation. Let me guess, it says "loading"?

If the coder that had provided your "hacked" car play activation had provided proper instructions (or you actually read them), it's very explicit that you MUST disable car play before you take the car into the dealership. Basically, hacked car play replaces the legitimate fsc (license) for navigation with a false one that tricks the car into thinking it has car play.

When a proper software update is done, it can't restore the hacked one, and it doesn't have the legitimate one available either.

This exact thing happened to me because my coder didn't tell me to remove it before going into the dealer.

A fix is to just re-enable car play (mine was a self code tool so I could do that easily), but you can never ever then remove it as the backed up fsc doesn't match the car version antmore. Ultimately I paid a coder that does know what they're doing to buy me an new fsc pack from BMW for about 20 quid and load it properly onto the car.


This is incredibly well documented, and I'm fairly sure it's even been talked about in this thread.




Lol, dandled literally warned you about this exact thing and now you're surprised?
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I reverted the Headunit to stock prior to handing the car over.

Reverted from ID7 to ID6 and restored the Coding to factory via ProTool.

So, thanks for the advice, but I already followed it.

It doesn't show "loading". It doesn't even let you select it.
When I plug in the maps USB it says that navigation needs to be activated. Which is a code from BMW. Which they can do... but cannot due to running out of time today.

Some of the posters here jump to conclusions pretty quickly. Heh.

It's no issue. A remote coder is going to put all the features back on.

I love how some people call it "hacking"... when it's simply enabling functions in software. I would have though that was basic understanding on a forum such as this...
 
I needs enhanced bluetooth IIRC which gives the car the antenna in the dash, it was an option on some F series cars and unless checked, BMW can't activate it. My M140i didn't have it, so I fitted it myself and then had the car coded.
 
M340i is coming up to 3 years old so I've had the first warranty letter. Having a look online and I can't seem to work out the difference between Comprehensive Warranty and Named Component Warranty - can anyone shed any details?

Comprehensive is £707/year with no excess, Named Component is £596/year with no excess.
 
Comprehensive covers everything except the components and parts listed, named component covers only the components and parts listed.

I would personally only purchase comprehensive, but with an excess to reduce the cost.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Comprehensive covers everything except the components and parts listed, named component covers only the components and parts listed.

I would personally only purchase comprehensive, but with an excess to reduce the cost.
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Thanks, yeh I was looking at comprehensive with a £100 excess for £522/year. The only things not covered casings, sundries and timing belts (unless they've been replaced in line with BMW's guidelines).
 
I just saw what I think was a new 5 series today. Whatever it was, it had the big beaver teeth front grill which didn't leave any space for the number plate at the bottom. So the number plate was plastered right across the middle of the grill... The car looked bad enough but the number plate across the grill took it to new levels of awfulness. I don't know what BMW were on when they designed their latest cars!
 
Maccy said:
Thanks, yeh I was looking at comprehensive with a £100 excess for £522/year. The only things not covered casings, sundries and timing belts (unless they've been replaced in line with BMW's guidelines).
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I have had this cover on numerous cars over the years. Definitely worth it as it gets really expensive very quickly if there's an issue. Not had the policy for my new car yet but I hope it's that cost. Just not sure if that includes breakdown cover
 
Had a chap in Germany send me a couple feature codes. Used the feature installer and I've got all the features back that I had lost.

Only cost £40 too.

Happy days.
 
piggin said:
I have had this cover on numerous cars over the years. Definitely worth it as it gets really expensive very quickly if there's an issue. Not had the policy for my new car yet but I hope it's that cost. Just not sure if that includes breakdown cover
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I have AA homestart so not too worried about breakdown cover
 
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