[lowrydr310]

I successfully upgraded my CCC system to CIC and coded it, however my service menu is missing two items:



The missing items correspond to the air filter and the spark plug maintenance intervals.




Coding the CIC was very easy; I modified the VO in NCSExpert (but did not write the modified VO to CAS or NFRM) by changing the build date to #0909 and adding $6VA. CIC works perfectly except the missing maintenance items.


I read in a few spots that KOMBI must be coded afterward. What coding is exactly required, default code KOMBI with the modified VO that I used to code the CIC?

After coding are those maintenance items (filter and spark plugs) removed from both Kombi and CIC?

[BRG_N54]

Originally Posted by lowrydr310

I modified the VO in NCSExpert (but did not write the modified VO to CAS or NFRM) by changing the build date to #0909 and adding $6VA.

Going by my recent experience, and the thread I used as a guide, you do need to write the new VO to both CAS and NFRM, then default code CIC. From what I understand you only have to default code KOMBI if you are doing combox install. Some get an SOS failure and KOMBI coding resolves that. I did not get the SOS, but default coded KOMBI regardless, because I did add combox in both cases. I will check which maintenance items show for me and get back to you.

[lowrydr310]

Originally Posted by BRG_N54

Going by my recent experience, and the thread I used as a guide, you do need to write the new VO to both CAS and NFRM, then default code CIC. From what I understand you only have to default code KOMBI if you are doing combox install. Some get an SOS failure and KOMBI coding resolves that. I did not get the SOS, but default coded KOMBI regardless, because I did add combox in both cases. I will check which maintenance items show for me and get back to you.

I initially wrote the modified VO to CAS and NFRM and the maintenance items were still blank. I then wrote the VO back to the original. No SOS failure in either case. I'll try default coding KOMBI to see what happens to the maintenance items.

[BRG_N54]

So I looked and I only have the ones pictured, but no blank spaces. Perhaps BMW dropped cabin filter and spark plugs from the list starting in '09? Those are very high mileage items, who knows.

[lowrydr310]

I swapped out the upgraded CIC to one with a newer firmware, and this time I default coded KOMBI after coding the CIC (with #0909 build date and $6VA temporarily added to the VO.) That fixed the missing service items and cleaned things up.



I did not write the VO to CAS or FRM/NFRM. There's no need to do that; the VO just tells NCSExpert what to use when default coding a module, so temporarily modifying the VO within NCSExpert that was read from CAS is sufficient for NCSExpert to do its thing and write to the retrofitted CIC. The only downside to that is any time I want to code CIC I have to remember to make those changes to the VO othwerise NCSExpert won't see the CIC.