Thanks mark!
I will contact you directly in a couple of weeks and we can make arrangements. Appreciate your help.

Originally Posted by
MarkD
Hello Russell,
yes you understood correctly. I can ship the reader to you in the future (it's currently at another member's home in TX) or I may also be able to arrange that someone with the reader can read it for you but then your car will be disabled while the chip is being sent out to read.
The issue with the generic chip is that when I added code to make the generic chip, a new checksum has to be calculated and I was not able to find the checksum location in the time I spent looking for it.
Mark
Thanks,
1995 525i Auto, M50TU 2.5L, EAT chip, 1/95 build, USA, 205/65/15 tires, ASC+T, HID, lumbar, EC Mirror, BMW Alpine 5 radio with BMW-Pioneer CD Changer, abt 236k miles, Oxford Green/Parchment