Reply With QuoteI'm slowly training myself to use it. For some reason I've never had the thought pop into my head that I might not be able to start the car even with the correct code entered. There might be an override somewhere.
Big, Big Time Poster
OBC - Code Feature
Does anybody use it? I'm a little leary of not being able to start the car even with the correct code of my own choosing.
JMI
Big, Big Time Poster
I'm slowly training myself to use it. For some reason I've never had the thought pop into my head that I might not be able to start the car even with the correct code entered. There might be an override somewhere.
Major Contributor
LOL! I really would love to use this feature consistently, but BMW electronics of this era (and maybe others) are so shady, so I don't use it!!Originally Posted by JMI
Yes, there is an override, but it's very inconvenient to have to sit around with the battery unplugged for 1 hr, or whatever the procedure is, it has been discussed.
[1994 530i/5-Speed]
3 Grand Master
shady? why so?LOL! I really would love to use this feature consistently, but BMW electronics of this era (and maybe others) are so shady, so I don't use it!!
Yes, there is an override, but it's very inconvenient to have to sit around with the battery unplugged for 1 hr, or whatever the procedure is, it has been discussed.
Gone but not forgotten
Grand Master
I used to habitually use the code function in manchester while I was there as a student. Made me feel much safer about the car because I'd had at least two cars broken into while there - one of the vehicles was broken into three times, two of which attempts they stole nothing!
If you bugger up/forget the code you've got a 15 minute wait coming up while the alarm's going off at you.
Major Contributor
What defeats the system ? I though disconnecting the battery would reset the car is this not true ?
Derek A.
90 535i 5 Speed - Style 5 17"
Grand Master
No, pulling the battery will not defeat it - I tested this to see if it would happen, (well on mine, anyway.) I would have thought that would be daft
It would appear that the code's stored in the ecu flash memory rather than the OBC - either that or 30m/1h's worth of capacitor backup. There's a process, detailed in the full obc manual which requires the keys to be in the ignition (coded keys if the vehicles got key transponders.) The alarm /will/ have a go at you though while you do it.
Grand Master
Try driving french peugeots from this era... then you'll know about dodgy electrics - I had a 205 Turbo Diesel - that after some little **** broke into - locked me in the car and started a fire in the boot.
French Electrics=Fire risk
Just talk to that high percentage of Renault Espace mk1 owners who's dashboards burst into flame while they were still driving it
Major Contributor
Look at the threads on this forum dude, you think it's normal/acceptable for cars of this status to have problems with headlights, problems with lkm reporting bulbs failed, fuseable links that go out without being tripped, alarm systems that work intermittently, before stopping completely, fan blowers that stop functioning they way they are supposed to, not to mention relays that are getting to the end of their time, wiring that is getting stiff and frail, connections starting to corrode, and just gremlins in general? The electronics on these cars aren't new anymore.
Even I am not a fanboy enough to over look the less than stellar electronics in general.
[1994 530i/5-Speed]
Big Time Poster
i use it. sometimes. mainly when i'm at home, instead of the girlfriend's house. i live in the ghetto, i tell ya. and fresno's one of the highest theft rates in the country.
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