Project: AWD Turbo Family Hauler (PART DEUX)

[JustinG]

Still love it...

Been tinkering a bit.

I wanted to enable the rear fog light.

I distinctly remember being behind an Audi headed up Afton mountain one time during one of it's fog shit show evenings headed home to JMU for a football game. The rear fogs were very helpful vs other cars parking lights. You could actually see him as you came up on him. So, I'm not against 20 minutes of my time and adding some safety.

So I followed this guide:

https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showth...p?t=877278

The switch is the same as the euro switch, butbis has a blank below the front fog button. This blank is just missing the label and has tabs preventing the button from being pushed in.

So you remove the 3 little tabs preventing the button from being pushed with a razor blade, Dremel whatever. I was able to remove em with a fresh razor blade.

2 tabs near the front edge:

1 tab:


Removed:



Coded and tested...

Yellow Rear fog light icon illuminates in the dash



Inboard lights are brighter.
Off:



On:





I also got around to wrapping a couple of trim pieces. I think they turned out great, time will tell how well the wrap handles the heat. Working with vinyl is way easier with heat.



I need to run grab a trim removal kit so I can get the center console trim and door handles off.


Last but not least, I wanted to update my nav. So I hit up the contact here:
https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showth...?t=1161561

$50 later I was emailed a Google drive Link with the necessary files and emailed the code and a how to.

The FSC code is like the license code. The maps are readily available to download, but can't be loaded to the car without the FSC code.

So now that I have the code, I can DL the latest maps from numerous sources, and reuse the FSC code.

All that's needed is a 64gb thumb drive formatted to fat32.