M Track Mode enabled on Z4MR

[Fishy Dave]

tomorrow is proposal day for wifey

Good luck

[carl]

Edit; too cold in the garage, other things on my mind, tomorrow is proposal day for wifey

Isn't it traditional to propose to your girlfriend, who at that point becomes your fiancée? Proposing to your wife is just silly (although I know someone who has been married to the same woman 3 times...)

Back on topic, can't you just run up a Bootcamp partition instead of using Parallels?

[Beedub]

Edit; too cold in the garage, other things on my mind, tomorrow is proposal day for wifey

Isn't it traditional to propose to your girlfriend, who at that point becomes your fiancée? Proposing to your wife is just silly (although I know someone who has been married to the same woman 3 times...)

Back on topic, can't you just run up a Bootcamp partition instead of using Parallels?

oh brother

[Beedub]

tomorrow is proposal day for wifey

Good luck

definitely needed.... starting to feel bit nervous

[Beedub]

Well it's raining today and I've just had a play with M Track Mode enabled. In this mode DSC doesn't cut power when the wheels spin in a straight line. It also allows some slip so you can get the car sideways and it will still allow full power - until a threshold is reached. I'm not sure what the angle is, but it does allow a fair amount! Obviously you should use this mode on a race track and I can't recommend it be used on the road This mode is what our cars have been screaming out for and I've no idea why BMW don't enable it from factory!

I'm wondering whether this is actually just DTC and not M Track Mode. Googling both seems to suggest they are similar anyway. Either way, this mode makes the car much more driveable, especially in the wet. Obviously disabling DSC gives the best experience, but for those of us not skilled enough enough to drive with it disabled, this mode is an excellent half way house.

So to enable it on your car. The procedure is relatively straightforward and assumes you are relatively proficient using Microsoft Windows...

Firstly you need to purchase the correct cable and obtain the software. This can be found on eBay and some sellers also provide a DVD with all of the necessary software. Buying one with the software supplied might be the best choice if you're not overly comfortable installing drivers and software in Windows. The cable required is a BMW OBD Diagnostics cable but check the one you get works with the Z4 (E85). It needs to use the K-Line protocol, but you could get a cable which supports the newer DCAN protocol too (in case you upgrade to a newer BMW and wish to future proof yourself). You also need to ensure the DATEN files are relatively new. I think v50.2 had the last revision of changes for the E85. Perhaps check with the supplier which version they are sending you.

The software you need to use is NCS Expert and there are lots of guides online explaining how to use it to add Option Codes to your cars Vehicle Order (VO) list (i.e. to retrofit features), or to code changes to existing modules (i.e. enable remote roof opening/closing, beep on lock etc.)

Once you have NCS Expert installed and working, you need to enable TDR on the MK60.C20 module:

Connect the cable to your car's OBD port and turn on the ignition...
1. Load NCS Expert.
2. Load an ExpertMode profile with Manipulation enabled.
3. Hit “FG/ZCS/FA” - might be "VIN/ZCS/FA" depeding on your NCS Expert version
4. Press “ZCS/FA f. ECU”
5. Select E85 in the box that pops up
6. Click OK with AKMB highlighted
7. FG and FA field will populate after a few seconds
8. Press Back
9. Click “Process ECU”, highlight the MK60 module and click OK
10. Change CBD-Name MK60.C10 to MK60.C20 and Click OK
11. Click "Change Job" and choose CODIERDATEN_LESEN
12. Click “Execute Job”
13. Browse to C:\NCSEXPER\WORK
14. Look for FSW_PSW.TRC and open it in notepad.

Look for:

TDR
nicht_aktiv

and delete the nicht_ leaving just aktiv

15. Save the file as “FSW_PSW.MAN” - (make sure it's not called FSW_PSW.MAN.TXT)
16. Click "Change Job" and choose SG_CODIEREN
17. Click "Execute Job"

NCS will then code your car and you should see "Coding Ended". Then turn your iginition off/on and pressing DSC will enable the DTC lamp (M Track Mode) and holding will disable DSC altogether.

There are lots of guides online which explain using NCS Expert in more detail, and it might be a good idea to read these and get more familiar before you attempt this yourself.

meek must thank you !! coded this in today using your instructions and worked perfectly first time, kinda daunting at first but got their in the end!! REALLy looking forward to trying this out, could be perfect road setting that still allows abit of fun, not totally sure what I've activated however, but can't wait to try this out.

quick question, all the new files that pop up in the "work" folder, can these be deleted now after I've coded??? looks like that folder could get pretty confusing if you was coding alot as it seems to populate quite a few different files in their once some of your process above is started.

now.....

how do i change things like 3 lights flash lane on the indicator push down, and beep on alarm activation time to have a play, excellent tool to learn, which i intend to do so.

[Beedub]

tomorrow is proposal day for wifey

Good luck

and she said yes!!!! wahoooo!!

[ga41]

Congrats mate

[Beedub]

Congrats mate

cheers buddy...


FWIW just noted the m3 guys are able to get the actually M-TRAK light , some are getting the DTC light, but it seems this light can be activated too, anyone tried this one the z4m platform ??? guessing our cluster may not have that bulb.

http://forums.m3cutters.co.uk/showthrea ... 098&page=3

also to get the DTC set so its actually cutting in and out at he CSL spec M track we need to change these settings.. to these but they appear different in our data, so I'm not totally sure what we are activating in our instance but its definitely not the higher thresholds that the CSL have without changing the below... we seem to just be adding in the function from the 3.0Si which id guess isn't optimised for the M-diff...

UEBERSTEUERN_MUE_1_2 - wert_11
UNTERSTEUERSCHWELLE_2 - wert_04
UNTERSTEUERN_MUE_1_2 - wert_03

all info in the above thread.


turning on TDR isn't changing any values of the understeer oversteer cut in and outs i don't think, but not sure how to check???


is this a way to check the valves for the DTC mode?? and where do i change them, i can see the above germans sentences in the mk 60 module but how do we know if thats for the traction fully on, DTC , or the OFF mode settings?


Edit... after reading up on DTC we are definitely at a high wheel slip allowance.. so will try some different settings and report back,.

[Beedub]

if anyones interested this is what the new coding adds once complete.

Mote the DTC lamp now lights up.

[Simo]

K

[Beedub]

ill do this for anyone Sutton side...

currently teaching myself how to use the software to other codings , run tests too.

[Simo]

X

[Beedub]

Will pm you mate. that'd be sweet. Also would be nice to see ur zed in the flesh!

no probs, any time is good for me, if you want to pop one evening thats fine literally will take me 5 mins! by then I'm hoping to be able to comfortably add and change other things. Ill dust off the old girl too if the days decent and give you a detailed tour.

[Simo]

Sounds good mate.

[VRSteve]

Can anyone point me in the right direction with this??

I'm stuck at the point of:

10. Change CBD-Name MK60.C10 to MK60.C20 and Click OK

I'm using the software and cables that TomK linked to, but I'm not getting the option to rename the CBD.
I've updated the datum files, and its not helped.
I also seem to have 4 different expert profiles:
One of them works, but I can't get past step 10
One of them "can't open a file" at step 8
The other 2 just give an error when I try and load them

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?!

Thanks!

Steve