Santoshdurai

Thanks to AK330i. I exactly coded as below and it worked like a charm. Mine was a 2007 e92 335i. Saved me a few hundreds The only thing to note is after coding shutoff the car and give it like 5 , 10 mins to start picking up NZ frequencies. When I checked immediately after coding, I saw FM and AM disabled. After a while they came up automatically. These are the settings that I changed in the CCC idrive: CHOST ------------------------------------------- LAENDERVARIANTE_GT ece CTUNE ------------------------------------------- RDS_AF_FUNKTION_CCC rds_ein_af_automatisch LAENDERVARIANTE_TUNER_ANT ece CAPPL ----------------------------------------- LAENDERVARIANTE_TUNER ece

I flashed the Alpina today with guidance from Pablo. Definitely something that anybody can do by just following the tutorials. The car felt great. Shifts are faster, smoother and crisp.

Hey guys, Installed the following parts this week, VRSF 7" Intercooler VRSF Charge pipe HKS SSQV4 BOV BMS DCI and flashed the MHD Stage1 FMIC map. The car is pulling harder than before peaking about 17-18 psi. I am very much happy with the turbo spooling music from the DCI and the Pss -- Psss sound from the HKS. I was kind of worried if the HKS would be too annoying after a while, but no.. , I started getting addicted to the sound. As our cars are well insulated HKS was not too loud as I expected and I liked it. Will post some videos of how the bov sounds when the windows are up, down and at full and low throttles. Sometimes the HKS makes these double PSS sound due to its synchoronous design which is soo cool. I was planning on installing the purple fin earlier before I got it but I think will leave it like this. The VRSF 7" Intercooler was spot on, had to cut the plastic shroud though. The VRSF Chargepipe was a direct fit like the factory C clips in the stock chargepipe and was easy to install. I got the VRSF lower charge-pipe as well so everything was a good fit. Tiago from VRSF is a helpful guy and his customer service was excellent. The products came well packed and there were no damages during shipment. Need to get the BMS Oil Catch Can and have the Intake valves cleaned to complete my Stage1 Tuning process. I talked to Ray from HellBM who gave me a quite reasonable quote for having the Alpina Trans flash installed. Will be doing this next month. Cheers..

Another MHD tuned 335i , great and congrats . Mines an AT by the way. If it was me, I will wait until I upgrade my fmic, before using the fmic+1 map, especially as it is getting hot these days. Fmic+1 tune has a bit higher boost psi level and i suspect that it may stress the engine. My year and month (2007 , 08) has a welded diff unlike the bolted ones in the others, so getting an LSD installed is going to be a bit difficult. I will worry about this later after i go fbo. I have heard good reviews about the Alpina.

Good looking car mate .

Thanks. It was the coil. After I replaced it my car ran good. Scanned for error codes and the 2FA3 disappeared. I too plugged off the recir valves to get the blow of valve sound. Not really loud but sounds nice. The tune was definitely better than the stock and worth the money. The 2nd gear was kind of conservative , did not feel much of a difference but from the 3rd was where I felt the car getting pushed harder. The gear changes and the power delivery were smooth. The stage 1 91 oct map gave a max boost of around 14 psi. I use BP 98 for gas and I was wondering if I should use the Stage 1 93 oct variant map, if that would give me a better edge. Looking forward to get an aftermarket charge pipe with bov and a fmic during summer. I will be logging values and might post in the forums for feedback. Having fun with the new tune at the moment

Hello Drew, I noticed that my boost was somewhere around negative -8 psi at idle and only stared to go positive around 2k rpm in second. Is this something similar that you noticed in your car after the flash ?

Finally got a chance to flash my car with the MHD stage 1 map (95 ron). Below is my experience. As I am new to the tuning world everything was a learning to me. Most important thing before you flash: Make sure your battery is healthy, if not hook up to a good battery charger ( min 8 amp). I did not realise that my car battery was very weak and the 12v 4 amp Battery Charger (snap on) was not sufficient enough to maintain a constant voltage. As a result the flash ended up with a write error and my car was left inoperable. My car did not start and was showing hell a lot of error codes. The K+Dcan cable nor any of the OBD2 diagnostic scan tool no more was getting connected to the ECU . After reading a few forums I realized that my ECU must have gone to the recovery mode and not letting any of tools to get connected to it. I then disconnected the negative terminal of the battery for like 5 mins , connected back again and then tried connecting my cables. Thank God that I was able to connect back again. This time I changed my car battery to a new one and then used a better battery charger. The flash went good and got completed in 18 to 20 mins. Was exited and wanted to see how the car pulled after the flash. To my bad luck the minute I was WOT on the 3rd gear around 4k rpm, I got my engine light on and the car started shaking and ran very roughly. I used MHD to read the codes and saw that I had a misfires on the 5th Cylinder. In addition to this I also got a 2FA3 - (Code Missing) which I have no idea what caused. I have been reading forums and did not get proper diagnostic reason. I am planning on changing all of my spark plugs today ( and check the coils on the 5th cylinder). Hopefully the 2FA3 goes off after that.

Thanks mate

Check out the review posted by Drew. http://bimmersport.co.nz/topic/52949-mhd-flash-app-anyone-tried-this-yet/ From what i can see atleast the non aggressive tunes sound safe. Will keep posted on the results once i have the tune myself

That was really helpful. I am planning on doing this soon. Will keep you guys updated on the results.

I love the car. Waiting for summer so I can spend some time modifying it. looking at MHD Tuning, with ER Charge pipe and tial bov to start off with.

Thanks mate

Thanks Cool. Thanks for the tip, I can save heaps

Thanks Steve. I never knew that there was an android app that can do the flashing. Do you have this on ur car?