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      10-22-2014, 12:34 PM   #135
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Drives: 2006 BMW 325i
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Originally Posted by ctuna View Post
On the cars before 2010 I thought they used canbus
for at least diags and some programming . I have a copy of
DIS57 and it works for diags through the OBD port using the can
bus. I can code using that cable but I never got the BMW programming
program to work through it. However it works fine with NCSexpert.
From what I understand they connect using the most access port and the headunit is what allows them to access the can bus. Maybe they can do certain things through obd since not all cars have a most bus.
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