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(100%) F85/f15 Smart Door Opener (DIY)
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I have succesfully done the Smart Door Opener Retrofit on my F85 and will be documenting here after gathering couple info from the existing posts. Will be step by step another proper DIY for the community. Approximate Cost : $150- $250 Installation Time : 2-4h The parts for the project are : 1- SMO Module 2- Upper Sensor and Bottom Sensor 3- SMO Middle Power Plug 4- Male Connector + Female Connector 5- 3 x Male Pin 3x Female Pin 6- Ground Contact 7- Cable 8- Self Adhesive Zip Tie INSTALLATION : Diagram : 1- Unlock the doors and Remove the Battery! 2- Remove the rear Bumper. You will need to remove outer Tail lights to reach single bolt on each light. 3- Remove the side fender trim half way and remove 2 bolts with rivets on each side. 4- Remove 6 bolts under the bumper. 5- Pull the bumper from each side starting closer to wheels and on the passenger side you will need to remove the PDC plug so bumper can come out nice and easy. 6- If you have a Towing Kit, you can do the same thing i have done for OEM installation which you will see in the pictures , If you dont have Towing kit simply open a hole on the rubber plug to route your SMO cable in. 7- For the OEM installation, Remove the 6 male pin from the PDC plug and transfer them with the order of 1-6 on 12 Pin connector , Then Remove the 6 pin from the bumper side and transfer on to 12 female pin with the order 1-6 8- Install the Female Pin on to SMO plug using the 1,5 foot cable from the harness. And use the male pins on other side and put them in to 12 Pin Plug with the order Pin7-9 9- Pull the 3 conducts cable where is installed on Male 12 pin socket from groumet in to the trunk area. 10- Shave the cable closer to Fuse box and cut the Red and Black wire and keep the yellow uncut. 11- Remove the fuse box and install the Red cable on F150 which already has 7.5amp with an existing cable. Tap on it or solder. 12- Use the terminal connector on black and screw on ground point which is located left side of the fuse box. 13- Route the rest of the cable from trunk to Driver side Kick Panel. You will need to lift the luggage part up and route around the carpeted are by removing couple rivets , then will go thru from the rear left side seat in to the door sills. 14- Remove the rear door sill and the extended cover next to seat and put the cable under the isolation foam. 15- Remove the front door sill and kick panel where attached to hood mechanism. 16- Remove the Foot panel cover 17- Gap the carpet area including the foot rest trim, and you will see ICM module on the left. Upper Right corner of the ICM where the door cables located. 18- Look for Blue/Yellow cable (Lin Bus 1) 19 - Tap the yellow cable from the harness to Blue/ Yellow and put everything back together. SMO INSTALLATION ON BUMPER : 1- Clean the inner bumper with alcohol or cleaner 2- Put the sensors first and eye on between inner 2 PDC sensor. 3- Put the zip ties on to upper sensor with 3M pieces first, then nicely install the sensor little bit under the PDC sensors 4- Luckily F85/6 came with bottom Sensor housing so no need 3M Tape or Zip Tie. Just attached them under the honeycone trim 5- Use 3 zip tie adhesive to attach the Module on the very left side closer to PDC 12 Pin plug. 6- Plug the sensors and power cable on the module 7- DO NOT install the Bumper yet! CODING : BDC : CAH_SMART_OPENER_COD_FAHRZEUGTYP = wert_43 (5E for the F15) VAM_SMART_OPENER = activ_hk vam_enable_smart_close - aktiv NBT EVO : SMO_CONFIG - aktiv BACKDOOR_SMO_INSTALLED - aktiv TESTING : 1- First thing after everything coded and installed is try to fold your mirrors. If mirror doesnt fold, Either Module is defective or you did something wrong on cabling. 2- I have tried to understand and solve an issue on mine cause Ebay Seller sent me a defective Module. Of course i was blaming myself the whole time and redid all the wiring again and result was same. Luckily i had my G20 with SMO and very easy to access that module without removing the bumper. I removed it and installed on mine, VoLaaa. I got my refund from the seller and already bought another module for the G20. I am using that module on my F85 and SW number is little bit higher than previous F series SMO modules. It might also have effect on working much more responsive than older version cause it works every time i kick unlike many other retrofits i was reading on the forums. If everything working put everything back and you are DONE! Video : https://youtube.com/shorts/5qtBx5TNfwo?feature=share Thank me on your first Grocery shopping Enjoy Onur Credits : @TheUltimateDrivingManiac n @bms5
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11-07-2022, 09:23 PM | #3 |
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Always here for The Community!!!
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11-07-2022, 09:35 PM | #4 |
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Thanks for the post. Btw your images look blurry on my app. Not sure if it's just me.
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11-07-2022, 09:48 PM | #5 |
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Super blurry pics. Almost unusable bud.
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11-07-2022, 10:50 PM | #6 |
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Interesting. Can you guys click on each photo? Or Do you think if i upload here will look better?
Those re just thumbnails , i didnt wanna get too much space on such a short DIY, but those thumbnails should be clickable to see the bigger version
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11-07-2022, 11:15 PM | #7 |
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That F85 is sweet!
On the homefront, I did the E70, first... that one was pretty involved. The E70 never had the soccer-mom tailgate offered as a factory option. https://www.bimmerfest.com/threads/s...#post-13097385 Then, added the option to wifey's F15. She hates it and said it is stupid. lol Here's a parts list from the F15... 61-35-7-391-043 sensor -lower round style btw, I don't think it's stupid. UPDATE: SEE POST #57 Last edited by Tomcat_F15_STL; 02-04-2023 at 03:39 PM.. |
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11-07-2022, 11:48 PM | #8 |
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Niceee, Yeah i did the same thing on LinBus. So much easier to do at kick panel Thats not stupid at all. It was getting me every time i go grocery shopping and my both hands are 90% of the time full!!!
It was much needed retrofit for me and i am super happy!
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Does this work with a hitch installed?
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On my F15 with factory hitch it works maybe every 5th "kick". And - as funny as it sounds,- it seems to work better when I'm wearing pants/jeans, as oppose to shorts. Go figure...
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Didn't BMW just do a stop sale on the kick opener and remove it from new vehicles?
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I assume you didn't use a cellphone I assume. That's the easiest way to upload photos using the app.
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As an example here is the medium size of the same photos . Keep in mind they are not attached to bimmerpost server. They re uploaded to imgbb.com!
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I have the stealth hitch , i havent check with detacable part installed yet. But who wants to kick open when you are towing anyway. But it works like a charm with stealth bar on right now and works every time i kick. You just need to know how to kick.
The procedure for the kicking is not a matter of how u kick forward, Mechanism works when you pull ur foot from inside to outside not other way! I figured out and works great. Also i have checked the OEM F86 Smart Door Opener and Factory Did not activate the NBT EVO menu for this feature. But then i found out 2018 F48 X1 with NBT EVO has this . I am trying to activate the clickable field on the menu and found couple more coding index on BDC. Will keep you updated on this.
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This is a dupe question from the X6 forum.
I want to add the iDrive screen: I cannot locate these items in the F15's NBT HU2 module NBT EVO : SMO_CONFIG - aktiv BACKDOOR_SMO_INSTALLED - aktiv Any ideas on how to proceed? |
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