[chenry]

Originally Posted by Kinglagos

I cried

I did too - much respect (and appreciation) for the person that took the time to do it

[whatnotsomuchf80]

Originally Posted by Patton250

That’s awesome. Post some draggy times please. I’m excited to see it. I especially would love to see 0 to 60 times. Do you have xdrive? I’d also love to see some dyno numbers.

I do have Xdrive. Will post numbers next week I believe

[Bootsy]

Cant you just buy a new DME and have that one unlocked and if needed put old DME in for service?

[Limegrntaln]

Originally Posted by Bootsy

Cant you just buy a new DME and have that one unlocked and if needed put old DME in for service?

DMEs are coded to your specific car. A copy of your original DME needs to be recreated, and sent to Femto. And the DMEs aren't even G80/G82 DMEs. They're pre July 2021 X3 ///M DMEs.

[Russd456]

I just called them and they quoted me at 2500 for the unlock and tune , which is not a bad deal but the turn around time is about a month and they don’t give you a spare ecu in the mean time

[Purekoryo]

Originally Posted by Patton250

What the shop is advertising is you bring your car to them and they clone your ECU. The cloned ECU then goes to Russia to get unlocked and you drive away with your original ECU. When the cloned ECU gets back 10 to 15 days later it is now unlocked and they will tune it and put that cloned ECU in your car. You still keep the original not tuned ECU of which you can put back in the car anytime. In essence you now have two ECUs. One cloned and tuned and the other original and not tuned. This all cost around 6K. This shop also says that not too far in the distant future they will be able to unlock the ECU locally. Please keep smart ass remarks to this claim including from competitors of this shop to a minimum. Constructive, informative and accurate remarks are fine.

The events of swapping ECU's back and forth, will BMW notice if they dig deep enough? For example if catastrophic engine failure occurs, I would think that would cause them to do this.

[Asmooth0101]

Originally Posted by Patton250

What the shop is advertising is you bring your car to them and they clone your ECU. The cloned ECU then goes to Russia to get unlocked and you drive away with your original ECU. When the cloned ECU gets back 10 to 15 days later it is now unlocked and they will tune it and put that cloned ECU in your car. You still keep the original not tuned ECU of which you can put back in the car anytime. In essence you now have two ECUs. One cloned and tuned and the other original and not tuned. This all cost around 6K. This shop also says that not too far in the distant future they will be able to unlock the ECU locally. Please keep smart ass remarks to this claim including from competitors of this shop to a minimum. Constructive, informative and accurate remarks are fine.

This may be a stupid question but if a clone ecu tune costs 6k and no clone costs $4k, is it fair to say that you are basically paying $2k to maintain your warranty? Or is an ecu tune still detectable even when a clone
Was used and original ecu was reinstalled prior to warranty claim?

[Purekoryo]

Also once you swap the ecu, how does it know how many miles are on the car and track history of routine service it had? Is that tracked by a separate memory module?

[forcefed]

Originally Posted by Purekoryo

Also once you swap the ecu, how does it know how many miles are on the car and track history of routine service it had? Is that tracked by a separate memory module?

Normally the body control module remembers all that stuff, not the ecu.

[Info@mad-us.com]

Originally Posted by forcefed

Normally the body control module remembers all that stuff, not the ecu.

Correct.

[FC4]

Looks legit. I saw them on TikTok also.

[Info@mad-us.com]

Originally Posted by FC4

Looks legit. I saw them on TikTok also.

Not legit they are just pulling dmes and shipping them like everyone else from what I can tell.

[Gapalotg80]

Originally Posted by whatnotsomuchf80

HAHAH honestly I'd like to clear this up for you guys. My ECU just came back from @femtoevo and it was all safe and easy. It really isn't as big of a deal and scary as everyone is making it out to be in their heads. Oh and my power numbers are crazy now.

Did you get a spare ECU ? I see that they "clone" your ECU so does that mean that they send you back your original locked ECU and the unlocked one or do they just unlock the original one and send it back ? also if you don't mind mentioning how much the whole process cost that would great