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Tall, thin, orange and named jack. Reminds me of one of our bimmersport ex pats. Does that piece of metal owe a whole lot of people money too?

Poor flare-less e36 guys

I think i have read that exact post over 400 times on the internet. Please do not be offended by this, but have you actually done any research whatsoever? There are literally thousands if not tens of thousands of threads on the topic. what you need, what works and doesn't work, power expectations, etc etc etc. I spent more time researching than actually doing the job. sounds boring, but you will know when you are ready to do your swap and have your car off the road for minimal time

I'll just leave this here

Absolutely stunning: http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-840004856.htm German plate? Possibly a forum member? If so, nice car! I wish I had the money.

This arrived from pelican about BMW's new light set up looks interesting. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?p=8451490?utm_source=pelican_bmwnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20150128

I can't help but think it's more proof of how cars are past their innovative stage seen in the 70s-90s and now they are just fiddling around with mere details that don't really matter.

Ah Trademe has something for you! http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/skoda/auction-715522731.htm

Hmm... Can't think who you mean?

I did say the fault may need a dyno to accurately determine the true fault under driving load conditions. I may be wrong... I can be quite frequently

Please keep us posted. I'm keen to hear what you find... I don't think we have any serious power loss issues with our 2002 320d, but it'd be good to know where to look in the event it does happen. Good luck.

Very smart people have now developed OBD tools that can do basically what a BDM can do now on the MSS54 DME, but I am still partial to BDM because of its ability to recover and the speed it reads and writes. There are various BDM solutions out there, but in my opinion the cheapest and most reliable tool out there is the clone Galletto system at the moment. I figured I would do a write up for those that want to do this on their own, so I quickly threw something together (hence the carpet!! Don't do this!!!) and show how you can bench/carpet flash via BDM. Once you have installed everything correctly and the software runs, hook your system up like so (one power supply source to power the DME and Galletto is sufficient, in this case a switchable power supply pack that's on 12V 2.5A output was stable for this DME). Software screen should show you the voltage, select 5V for BDM flashing. Galletto provides a connector board between the Galletto main unit and the BDM connector plug line - this basically just switches the pins around. I didn't like the board itself as it made everything too short and the contacts were not insulated so you could accidentally ground or short on the DME, so ended up making my own conversion harness (easily enough to do, just follow the printed track on the connector board) - Self made harness top, supplied board bottom. The siemens BDM connector Alternatively you can use spring loaded BDM probes on a siemens board that you can buy on the net - handy if you don't want to solder header pins. From main software screen select driver and select as per screenshot for the MSS54/HP Ok, then click Connect Once connected it will show the chipset in box on top left. In this case FLASH AMD 29F200BB Now to read, click Read Ext Flash, screen pops up, just type in name of the file you want to call it and the location you want to save it to Save and it'll start reading Done. To write, the process is the same, except you select Write Ext Flash. A screen will pop up for you to select the .bin file, then it'll ask if you want checksum corrected. Rest is self explanatory. :thumbsup2:

Congrads, any pics?

Adeeb...!

Now in possession of some pretty cool tooling and ability to work on multiple types of DMEs I suppose (although I've only tested it on MSS54s so far) ... including: FGtech Galletto 4 with BDM and JTAG functions BDM100 tooling Spring loaded BDM connectors for Siemens, Bosch, Marelli and Delphi DMEs (no more soldering needed) Chip burner and various types of sockets - still testing some of these (have tested 29FX00 chipsets and M35080 and it seems to work okay) On board Motorolla M35080 connector (no more removing chips from clusters : P hehe) BDM frame for BDM spring loaded connectors. Also in other news ... now in possession of a highly tuned Evolve MSS54 DME file : ) Supposedly 385hp+ so I am told. Next project ... Velocity Stack modification : ) Anyone want to be guinea Pig? Apparently makes more power than the CSL airbox : )

'Always run on 91' WTF? How is that a selling point?

Just wear a rubber band and every time you see it do some exercise, it'll be heaps cheaper and you'll likely see the same results...... ;-)