Mark,
Monday, November 15, 2004, 4:21:11 PM, you wrote:

> What if any hardware has been produced or sourced in order to access the
> round diagnostic connector present on older OBDII BMW's. Mine is a 1996
> M3 for instance and I can't use any of the OBDII diagnostic software
> because the connections are incompatible and I've found no way to adapt
> them. There's plenty of free OBDII software out there, but seemlingly
> no way to hook it up, hence my interest in BiM-COM to begin with. I'm
> getting quite tired of my airbag light too. Hope you guys are going to
> have airbag system diagnostic too ;-)

i spoke with Uwe last evening at some length.

the first thing he said was "if the guy is local, have him drop by and
wwe'll turn off his airbag light." we do, of course, have access to
some dealer tools that we use to compare the results of our own
software - so we can probably at least scan the car and see if the
fault can be easily reset.

next - as we introduce new chassis modules, part of the decision
process is the availability of cars to test on. this is the main reason we
lease a Mini-Cooper... we have an E46 in the stable and that will
almost certainly be the next model out. after that, i don't believe
any firm decisions have been made.

if you can make your vehicle available for use for a reasonable amount
of time, that might help tip the scales in that direction.

thanks for your interest !

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rich -+- mailto:rich@...