[Philbainea]

Hey gents

Looking for some advice.
So my neighbour has a 2023 m135i and wants it remapping.

After looking into things, seems like it's ecu is locked?
Had a guy come out today to see if he could read the ecu which he claims he can and he can put the remap on.

Just looking for input on this.
I use bm3 for my car so don't know much about locked ecus but does this seem right or will it be locked and no way of remapping u less we send it to femto?

Many thanks
Phil

[Erebor]

Yeah the F40 ecu is hardlocked. In order to put a flash on it, you need to take it out and send it to Femto in Finland. No other way.

[ringo9]

Originally Posted by Philbainea

Hey gents

Looking for some advice.
So my neighbour has a 2023 m135i and wants it remapping.

After looking into things, seems like it's ecu is locked?
Had a guy come out today to see if he could read the ecu which he claims he can and he can put the remap on.

Just looking for input on this.
I use bm3 for my car so don't know much about locked ecus but does this seem right or will it be locked and no way of remapping u less we send it to femto?

Many thanks
Phil

BM3 has nothing to do with the hard lock of these latest ECUs (2021+ I think? ) It's not something BM3 or any other tuner can bypass if it's there, with, as mentioned, the exception of Femto who does only that: unlock the ECU so it's possible to flash a map later on, it's a different and independent process.

I'd like to see that guy successfully flash a 2023 car that hasn't had its ECU "femto'ed" though...

[Philbainea]

Originally Posted by ringo9

BM3 has nothing to do with the hard lock of these latest ECUs (2021+ I think? ) It's not something BM3 or any other tuner can bypass if it's there, with, as mentioned, the exception of Femto who does only that: unlock the ECU so it's possible to flash a map later on, it's a different and independent process.

I'd like to see that guy successfully flash a 2023 car that hasn't had its ECU "femto'ed" though...

Yer I understand that, my point with BM3 is I didn't have any unlock to do or such, was quite a simple process of using a mobile..

This guy was adiment he could do it, and everyone else is saying impossible. He was using flash files from a bigger company so it's not even like he's writing the files himself and was telling me people are being ripped of paying over 1k to get it unlocked and mapped 🤣

[mrtfool72]

Did you get it flashed?

[Philbainea]

Originally Posted by mrtfool72

Did you get it flashed?

No mate, we didn't even want to give him a chance as he wanted to take the ecu out. He was chatting bubbles so we told him to jog on

[brno100]

I have heard there is no longer need to open the ECU to get it flashed. not confirmed tho

[Erebor]

Originally Posted by brno100

I have heard there is no longer need to open the ECU to get it flashed. not confirmed tho

Physically open yes. There hasn't been a reason for that for a while.
but you still need to send the ECU in to unlock it.

[silvekk]

try dinan