Karter16's Silbergrau E46 M3 Journal

[karter16]

Amazing work, as always!

Also, gotta love having data to pinpoint bugs. I bet that connection issue would have haunted you for a long time had you not had those logs

Oh man absolutely! Having 100Hz data is huge, there's so much more you can see, it's aided my understanding massively. (not to mention the improved accuracy for tuning).

[karter16]

Small job today after work - replaced the xenon bulbs with new Osram Nightbreakers. Pretty sure the ones in it were the original items and they were getting so dim I thought it probably wouldn't pass the next warrant of fitness.

I used to own a Subaru Outback (for which the official procedure to replace the front left bulb was to remove the wheel and wheel lining) and could replace those by hand from the top, so doing this on the e46 was overwhelmingly spacious in comparison so it was a quick job.

No comment yet on the difference as it is not night time. Will update on this when I next drive at night.

[ac427]

Small job today after work - replaced the xenon bulbs with new Osram Nightbreakers. Pretty sure the ones in it were the original items and they were getting so dim I thought it probably wouldn't pass the next warrant of fitness.

I used to own a Subaru Outback (for which the official procedure to replace the front left bulb was to remove the wheel and wheel lining) and could replace those by hand from the top, so doing this on the e46 was overwhelmingly spacious in comparison so it was a quick job.

No comment yet on the difference as it is not night time. Will update on this when I next drive at night.

They make a great difference. I think mine might have been the originals too. I could see the Osram's illumination while driving in daylight!

The only issue is making sure the bulbs are genuine.

[karter16]

I haven't had much time the last few weeks, but did have a little bit of time yesterday and, finally, the inevitable happened and I bricked my DME 🙃. Honestly kinda amazed I got as far as I did before screwing something up. Kind of a dumb mistake too. I miscalculated how much space I needed to leave in a struct in RAM. Just so happens the RAM I've effectively corrupted is used by OBD (because of course) so recovery with WinKFP isn't an option here.

Anyway - BDM stuff is on its way. I have a DME with ST chips so am going to give this route a try https://nam3forum.com/forums/forum/s...jtag-u-link-nt

I needed to get setup for this anyway as this was bound to happen at some point, so will be good to get the stuff and get it up and running.

Have managed to join both the flatbed gang and the bricked DME gang in the same calendar year!

[Bry5on]

We've all been there!

[karter16]

Well the crazy busy-ness has continued on my side - haven't had much time to keep up with car stuff at all. Hopefully things will settle down as we get closer to Christmas - I've got some projects I want to finish off over the break.

To add to it all my 4 year old managed to knock over a cup which perfectly directed iced tea through the air intakes on my laptop. Fortunately this happened 3 weeks before my AppleCare+ warranty ran out as the repair bill ran to $7500 (which is several thousand more than I paid new for the laptop 3 years ago).

The programmer is still in transit for me to bench-flash the DME and recover from my mistake. Will post more on that when I get to it.

In brighter news though I now have a set of Bryson's fender braces ready to go. I was expecting I'd need to politely ask Bryson for the files so that I could get a set made locally as SendCutSend don't ship internationally. Then I happened to see Ethan's for sale post and reached out to ask if he'd be prepared to ship to NZ. He very kindly sent them my way and I'm now all set to go with that project when I, hopefully, get some time over the Christmas break.