K+ DCAN cable. I just downloaded Winkfp, INPA, ISTA-D, ISTA-P. I connected to my e46 with INPA/ISTA-P/Winkfp to get familiar with the interfaces thinking it was safe since I was not going to change any settings. Later I tried to start the car and it cranks but no start. The battery was very low (yep read up and should have had strong charger hooked up while connected). I charged up the battery and still no start. Unhooked negative terminal to possibly reset and still no start.
I am wondering if ISTA-P did something I did not intend. The displays were not intuitive to me, no surprise since my first time using it. I am concerned that encoding was being done without my knowledge?? I terminated the program according to instructions. From reading up I did not see any red boxes so maybe a good sign, there is a term called bricking which I take is a bad thing.
Any guidance for me to get my car back?
2001 BMW 740i - Anthracite Gray - Style 32 Wheels --------- 2004 BMW 330i - Silver Grey Metallic
Convenience Pkg - Cold Weather Pkg - PDC ------------------- Sport Package - Auto - Mroof - Hseats
You will likely have to reflash the DME, sounds like it got corrupted in the flash process.
-Abel
- E36 328is ~210-220whp: Lots of Mods.
- 2000 Z3: Many Mods.
- 2003 VW Jetta TDI Manual 47-50mpg
- 1999 S52 Estoril M Coupe
- 2014 328d Wagon, self-tuned, 270hp/430ft-lbs
- 2019 M2 Competition, self-tuned, 504whp
- 2016 Mini Cooper S
Yes, Winkfp can do it, but you've got to know how to set it up correctly.
If it's the flashing issue to begin with.
Do you have an ISTA-P report of what was done? What was the purpose of you attempting ISTA-P on it?
-Abel
- E36 328is ~210-220whp: Lots of Mods.
- 2000 Z3: Many Mods.
- 2003 VW Jetta TDI Manual 47-50mpg
- 1999 S52 Estoril M Coupe
- 2014 328d Wagon, self-tuned, 270hp/430ft-lbs
- 2019 M2 Competition, self-tuned, 504whp
- 2016 Mini Cooper S
I only used ISTA-P just to see if it would communicate to the car. It did, and I paged through the commands but I got an uneasy feeling that it was risky. My intent was not to do anything that would code or change memory, just get familiar with the tool.
I plan to read up carefully on Winkfp, already watched a few youtubes on it.
At any point through that, did you click execute measures plan?
-Abel
- E36 328is ~210-220whp: Lots of Mods.
- 2000 Z3: Many Mods.
- 2003 VW Jetta TDI Manual 47-50mpg
- 1999 S52 Estoril M Coupe
- 2014 328d Wagon, self-tuned, 270hp/430ft-lbs
- 2019 M2 Competition, self-tuned, 504whp
- 2016 Mini Cooper S
Since you can get codes, I doubt the flash memory is corrupted.
Is it cranking slowly? Do you see any rpm signal either in diagnostics or on the cluster?
Last edited by 328 Power 04; 09-23-2018 at 04:40 PM.
-Abel
- E36 328is ~210-220whp: Lots of Mods.
- 2000 Z3: Many Mods.
- 2003 VW Jetta TDI Manual 47-50mpg
- 1999 S52 Estoril M Coupe
- 2014 328d Wagon, self-tuned, 270hp/430ft-lbs
- 2019 M2 Competition, self-tuned, 504whp
- 2016 Mini Cooper S
Back to this issue now. INPA or ISTA-D are not displaying anything that would indicate a problem that would cause this. Anybody have any ideas?
I do not want to hook up ISTA-P for fear of me messing something up further.
The car did start up and run for a while when I sprayed Starting Fluid in the air cleaner.
Injectors disabled for some reason??
Last edited by ryunk; 09-30-2018 at 07:13 PM.
2001 BMW 740i - Anthracite Gray - Style 32 Wheels --------- 2004 BMW 330i - Silver Grey Metallic
Convenience Pkg - Cold Weather Pkg - PDC ------------------- Sport Package - Auto - Mroof - Hseats
RESOLVED!
It has started and is running fine now.
The cause of the no start is a bit of a mystery. The diagnostic software is ruled out because I did nothing to reset or program anything to fix it.
I sprayed Starting Fluid in a few times to see if it had spark, maybe that did something to either deflood the cylinders or draw fuel in faster, I don't know.
Another possibility is that the fuel pump was stuck and when I tapped the fuel tank it started the pump rotating again. It started and ran fine after this but wow, what a coincidence if so, I had no fuel pump problems prior to this.
Anyway, I am back and going again.
2001 BMW 740i - Anthracite Gray - Style 32 Wheels --------- 2004 BMW 330i - Silver Grey Metallic
Convenience Pkg - Cold Weather Pkg - PDC ------------------- Sport Package - Auto - Mroof - Hseats
You should probably change that fuel pump out. It was a coincidence.
-Abel
- E36 328is ~210-220whp: Lots of Mods.
- 2000 Z3: Many Mods.
- 2003 VW Jetta TDI Manual 47-50mpg
- 1999 S52 Estoril M Coupe
- 2014 328d Wagon, self-tuned, 270hp/430ft-lbs
- 2019 M2 Competition, self-tuned, 504whp
- 2016 Mini Cooper S
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