(100%) F85/f15 Smart Door Opener (DIY)

[SaNGRia]

Hello folks,

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

[SYT_Shadow]

These diys blow my mind! Incredible! Good work!!

[SaNGRia]

Always here for The Community!!!

[MH20jy]

Thanks for the post. Btw your images look blurry on my app. Not sure if it's just me.

[Maverik259]

Super blurry pics. Almost unusable bud.

[SaNGRia]

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

[Tomcat_F15_STL]

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
61-35-7-391-045 sensor -upper round style
61-35-7-429-824 control unit $75.00 w/ above sensors
61-35-7-496-165 second control unit to replace cracked case on the other $14.00
61-13-2-359-997 connector $22.04



***61-35-7-391-042 sensor -upper flat style
***61-35-7-422-700 control unit

Controller Wiring:
.35mm Yellow/Green(pin 1), Red(pin 2), and Brown(pin 3)
Pin 1 to LIN Bus for LF mirror and driver's door switch block.
-Soldered into blue/yellow behind LF kickpanel wire leading to pin 42 on connector 258*4B on BDC

Optional LIN Connection: Instead of connecting to the LIN Bus on pin 42 of the BDC, I ran a wire along the left side of the vehicle and up into the drivers door where I connected it to the wire leading to pin 4 of the switch block.

add-a-fuse and used 150 instead

Controller Pin1 - LIN wire on PIN 42 on connector 258*4B into BDC located in Passenger Footwell
Controller Pin2 - +12VDC from Fuse F150 behind tailgate fuse block
Controller Pin3 - GND to ground bus filled with brown wires located next to tailgate fuse block

Coding in BDC_Body Module:
CAH_SMART_OPENER_COD_FAHRZEUGTYP = 5e
VAM_SMART_OPENER = activ_HK
VAM_ENABLE_SMART_CLOSE = activ

btw, I don't think it's stupid.


UPDATE: SEE POST #57

[SaNGRia]

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!

[blue dragon]

Does this work with a hitch installed?

[smyles]

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...

[///d]

Didn't BMW just do a stop sale on the kick opener and remove it from new vehicles?

[destroy26]

This is awesome. Great work!

[Maverik259]

Originally Posted by SaNGRia

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

That's not how the forum works for images. They don't get bigger or more clear. If you upload thumbnails. You get thumbnail qualities.

I assume you didn't use a cellphone I assume. That's the easiest way to upload photos using the app.

[SaNGRia]

Originally Posted by Maverik259

That's not how the forum works for images. They don't get bigger or more clear. If you upload thumbnails. You get thumbnail qualities.

I assume you didn't use a cellphone I assume. That's the easiest way to upload photos using the app.

I did not upload as thumbnails. They are uploaded full size. I just shared the links as thumbnail. They all look clear and nice on my cellphone and on the laptop. I use Samsung S22 Ultra and Windows 11.

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!

[SaNGRia]

Originally Posted by blue dragon

Does this work with a hitch installed?

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.

[twonb1]

Hey I know you lol phat_car

[SaNGRia]

Originally Posted by twonb1

Hey I know you lol phat_car

Hey buddy

[Tomcat_F15_STL]

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?

[SaNGRia]

Originally Posted by Tomcat_F15_STL

This is a dupe question from the X6 forum.

I want to add the iDrive screen:

Attachment 3031472

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?

Whats the version of your NBT?

[Tomcat_F15_STL]

Originally Posted by SaNGRia

Whats the version of your NBT?

2018 f15

NBT EVO iD6

[SaNGRia]

Originally Posted by Tomcat_F15_STL

Attachment 3031505

2018 f15

NBT EVO iD6

That is not the version of your NBT EVO. It is under the Navigation menu / Software version!

[Tomcat_F15_STL]

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