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      11-11-2015, 11:03 PM   #1
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Help!! - I have a Drivetrain warning after coding

Help!!
I VO coded my entire ECU...and I am now getting a drivetrain malfunction.
I tried clearing all the DTS warnings using ESYS but the warning still presists.

I would appreciate anyone's help on this.

Thank you so much.
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      11-11-2015, 11:37 PM   #2
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Help!!
I VO coded my entire ECU...and I am now getting a drivetrain malfunction.
I tried clearing all the DTS warnings using ESYS but the warning still presists.

I would appreciate anyone's help on this.

Thank you so much.
Did you back up your CAFD files?
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      11-12-2015, 05:49 AM   #3
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No, I don't think I did.

I just went through the Beginners guide to coding, document, section titled:
"How to change FA (VO) in F-series car, Version 8-24-2013"

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      11-12-2015, 07:37 AM   #4
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This brings back memories when it was my first time coding and it was on my F15 as well.

I did the same exact thing and VO coded the entire ecu folder.

Was your car running when this occurred? If it was that is your problem. It tried to recode your DME folder but couldn't access the CAFD file so its now missing. You can confirm this by clicking into the DME folder and you will notice that you don't have a CAFD file in there anymore like the rest of the folders. Good news is that you can fix this easily but bad news is that i can't remember the exact steps to get it back. Contact Shawnsheridan on this forum. He walked me through getting that file back on my X5 and everything is normal. Basically your car was coded back to the day it rolled off out of the dealer parking lot.

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That's exactly what I did. I found the following steps to bring back the CAFD file.

Connect => Read FA (VO) => Activate FA (VO) => Read SVT (VCM) => Left-Click on DME => Click on "Detect CAF for SWE" => Select the CAFD from latest I-Level shown => Select OK => Right-Click on DME (the ECU itself not the underlying CAFD) => Select CODE.

But I cannot figure out how the read the SVT in VCM and I don't see an option to "Detect CAF for SWE" when I left click on DME.

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      11-12-2015, 01:34 PM   #6
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I would start here.

http://f15.bimmerpost.com/forums/sho....php?t=1033991

I know a few members have done what you experienced before, as Alan said, and somewhere in this thread, either Opasha or Shawn has walked them through the steps.
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Thank you to everyone who replied, Shawn helped me get it resolved!!

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      11-13-2015, 08:24 AM   #8
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^^

Shawn rocks. He saved me that night as well. Nothing like sitting there watching your 70K BMW's dash light up like a Christmas tree while you realized that you just did something wrong.
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I have the same problem. What was the solution?
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Having this issue right now, and need it fixed ASAP, since I just started an account I cannot PM Shawn so if anyone could please help that would be amazing. I did not save an original SVT so I don't have a backup for it. Since I'm a dummy.
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It also won't let me click Detect CAF for SWE
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Having this issue right now, and need it fixed ASAP, since I just started an account I cannot PM Shawn so if anyone could please help that would be amazing. I did not save an original SVT so I don't have a backup for it. Since I'm a dummy.
Try this

Misread the coding instructions...Drivetrain: Check soon error... https://f80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=1128680

This happened to me a while back and Shawn send me this link.

Good Luck
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See my problem is that it won't let me click Detect CAF for SWE, it's just greyed out. So I don't know if I'm maybe missing some files or something?
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See my problem is that it won't let me click Detect CAF for SWE, it's just greyed out. So I don't know if I'm maybe missing some files or something?
Did you activate FA?
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