[Gee-Dog]

Hi All,

I've read a thousand posts on different forums, and think I've worked out what I need.

I have a 2009 E92 335i, with CIC & Professional Maps, in Australia. My CIC has been playing up for a while - basically just restarts, runs for 30 seconds to several minutes, rinse & repeat. It doesn't do it all the time - it will work fine for months, then one day will start rebooting. It will do ythis for anything up to several days. The first time it happened, I replkaced the disk with a new mechanical one, and it seemed to fix it. A few months later it started again, so I replaced the new disk with an SSD - once again seemed to be ok for a while. It's now getting worse, and I'm convinced it isn't the disk. I pulled the CIC aprt a few weeks ago, and reseated the internal ribbon cables. It worked fine for 2 weeks after, but this morning started rebooting again.

I've bought a replacement CIC - it came out of a 2011 320D, with very similar options to mine, including Professional Nav. Today I put my SSD disk into the "new" CIC, and installed it in the car. Most things worked, but no Nav, no Bluetooth, and no oil level disply (might have been other things but thats all I noticed.

I connected my notebook, and used WinKFP to read the CAS, then wrote the VO back to the "new" CIC. The CIC powered off then on again, and now Bluetooth works, and I think the oil level will work as well. Nav says "Function currently not available". Everything I read tells me this is to be expected.

I'm after advice as to the best (read cheapest) way to get Nav working again. I believe I can buy an emulator - a hardware device that bypasses the FSC requirement. Is this my best option, and which one do I buy?

If I want to get an FSC code, where would I get this from? Is this a dealer thing? Would I need to supply my own Vasoline (do you even have Vasoline in the US - perhaps KY Gel)? Can anyone else get me an FSC code for NAV? I realise this is different ot the FSC code for updating maps - I have done that to my car previously.

What is Script Activation? Is this the same thing as getting an FSC code?

I've also read about a method of getting the FSC by a file on a USB, but it says this only works on US & EU market cars - mine is an AU model. Can anyone shed more light on this?

Any help is greatly appreciated.