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- First you will need NCS Expert ver. 3.1.0. It is a 96MB file zipped. It will download as a .rar file, but can be opened with WinZip or Unrar
learned how to code my own car using an OBD to serial cable and NCS expert (2006 325i) Usually you
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C:\ediabas\ediabas.ini that you can set which interface you would like to use.. a little more advanced

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1. Unzip “NCS EXPERT.rar” to C:\

a. We are looking for three folders, EDIABAS, INPA and NCS EXPERT
b. folders should look like this

2. Navigate to C:\INPA\BIN
a. Right click on INPALOAD.exe and create a shortcut to desktop
3. Navigate to C:\NCS EXPERT
a. Create a shortcut to your desktop of the “WORK” folder
4. Navigate to C:\NCS EXPERT\BIN
a. Create a shortcut to desktop of “NCSEXPER.EXE”
5. Navigate to C:\Ediabas\hardware\OBD and run the OBDsetup.exe. Your screen will look
something like this, since I have ran this script previously it might look a little different the first
time you run it. YOU MUST RESTART after this!!

a.

6. Right click on my computer > properties

a. Windows 7 and WinXP is similar
i. Click on Advanced system settings
ii. click on Environment Variables
iii. Highlight “Path” and click edit
 iv. Add this to the end “;C:\ediabas\bin”

v. Click ok and exit all windows to desktop

7. From desktop press the WINDOWS KEY + R and type devmgmt.msc or just type in to search

8.
9. This will open device manager.
a. Go to PORTS> double click on com1 > port settings tab > advanced

9c. Perform after step 9b.

Now plug the cable in to your laptop.When you plug the connector into the laptop, it must be on COM1. It will not work with any other
COM#. Highlight the + sign by PORTS>double click the USB Serial device>port settings and change
the port to Com 1>save. It may give you a pop up that there may be a conflict with other devices on COM1. That's OK as
you will no be using any other device when you code the car. >Now go into the advanced tab>change if not alreday set to this
Com Port number should be COM 1; receive and transmit bytes should both be 4096; latency timer change to 1; minimum
read and minimum write 0>OK>OK
 b. Ensure “use fifo uffers” option is marked and receive buffers and transmit buffers are
both set to 8. Once that is finished press ok and exit all windows.
10. Take a second, double check everything you just did. Trust me when I say you can’t skip steps!
11. Connect your obd cable to car and computer we are going to test functionality with INPA.
12. Put key in slot and press the START STOP button but not to start car. Press twice so car Ign on, lights and climate off
13. Go to desktop and click on “INPALOAD” (shortcut we created previously)
a. Both circles are black then continue, if not double check all previous steps make sure
serial is set to com1
COM1. **Very important. If you do not get black circles try a differnt USB slot on laptop.
Only one is COM1. Also, have cable plugged in and car in Ign mode before you open INPALOAD

Select E60 (Which may seem counter intuitive

14. Select your
since we chassis mineBis E90 so press F9, you will get this box
have E63's.

E60

It will be in English and not German

I believe you select Seat Modules

then airbag or any other option
15. Select “Karosserie” now you will see another menu to the right. Select “airbag” You are merely testing the ability
to see a module
16. Press F5 to read status.. if it continues without any errors we are ready to run NCS Expert
17. Close INPA and start NCS EXPERT.exe from desktop shortcut.
18. Follow instructions very very very carefully, you can screw up your car starting now. If you don’t
know how to follow directions stop immediately . ok now for the fun part.
19. Should start off looking like this..

20.
21. Remember to follow directions closely….
22. Select “File > Load profile > Expertmode > OK

23.
24. File > edit profile password is “repxet”
25.
26. Select car-keymemory > check all three boxes > press ok
27. Click on “consistency check” should get this .. press ok

28.
29. Then select “FSW/PSW”
30. Make sure both check boxes are checked and top part only has “from CVT” selected .. should
look like this

31.
32. Press ok, select consistency check again.. if no errors then press ok
33. File > save profile as > FZG4.PFL “mine is name GZG2.PFL” press ok 33a. Save it as the name it defaults to.
Don't change the name
34. Example

35. File>edit profile>repxet>profile info> set profile name to “FSW PSW MAN”
36. We have just created a profile to write to car via a .man file. Every time you start NCS expert
you will need to load this profile. After you load the profile you will see options like this

Note** I use and load the profile

default profil mit.....as the one I load. It seems
to work better than the one created. It needs
to be edited to look like step 30. Both bottom
boxes require the x. Remember password is
repxet

37.
38. Select F1 > select F3 here we can choose our chassis. We are going to select E89 E60 (again we are

assuming you are working on an E90)

E63-64. Again this may seem counter intuitive but it is the correct procedure

The program seeks the modules loaded for an E60 via files in NCVS Expert known
as DATEN files. Most of the modules are loaded in these files. There is an update
to these files that I got from a helpful site in Moscow. I did update them in my DATEN
folder, but so far do not see any differenmce, so for now use what comes with
NCS Expert
 E60 is the one to highlight

E89

39.
40. Press ok. Now it is asking which computer we want to code.. we are going and always select
“CAS” press ok. All options will gray out for a couple seconds and then it will look like this.

Note* CAS is not the

comfort access module.
E60 It is a coding reference
Coincidentally, there is
FG is your VIN a module called CAS, which
FA will say E60 is in fact the comfort access
module. In case you were
wondering

41.
42. Notice that now our vin is there along with “FA” FA is like a single string that tells the car
everthing that it came with from the factory. More advanced users can change this but not
really needed. I have provided a pdf for that if you are interested.
43. Now select “F6” for back will gray out then will look like this This may take a minute. Do not interrupt.
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E60

44.
45. We are going to start by making a backup of the car.
46. WARNING this initial step will reset your ECU and replace any settings you have coded
previously since we have just “coded nothing” to the ECU.
47. The whole point of this was for the ECU to read all the settings from every module and place
them in a file called FSW_PSW.TRC.
48. Navigate to the “WORK” shortcut we created on the desktop.
49. Open the file FSW_PSW.TRC with notepad. Make a copy of it in a safe place. This is your backup
of all the settings.
50. Ok now for the fun.. coding.. lets code the famous “digital speed on cluster” Step 49 saves a master file of
all your modules and settings.
51. Just to avoid any mistake close NCS we are going to start from the beginning. Save this on a thumb drive as well
52. Load NCS >File>load profile “FSW PSW MAN” as on the PC in the backup folder
53. F1>F3>select your chassis>select “CAS” Name it something other than
FSW_PSW.TRC, like Master.TRC
54. Press F6 for back
55. Press F4 to select a specific module “process ecu” then you get a list of all modules on your car..
will and may be different.

56.
57. Select “CAS” then select “READ ECU” this is going to create another FSW_PSW.TRC file but only
with the values on for the module we select.
58. Select “READ ECU” this will read all the values from the specific module and place ten in the file
stated above. You will get a screen like this.. you can close it.

59.
60. Leave ncs open and head to the “work” folder.
61. Open the FSW_PSW.TRC file with notepad
62. File>save as FSW_PSW.MAN (be sure to select “save as type” to all files so that it will accept our
“.MAN” extension. If you fail to do so it will just save it as a text file .TXT Note* very important to save as a .MAN

63. The “FSW PSW MAN” profile that we used is going to use this “FSW_PSW.MAN” file . this is
where we are going to make any changes and then NCS will write this to ECU.
64. Open the file we just saved with notepad will look like this.
 You can use Edit>Find to get to the line of code quicker
example Edit>Find>bc

It will take upi to every line that has a bc in it. When you
get to the line that has bc_digital_v, thats where you change
nicht_aktiv to aktiv, then save as FSW-PSW.MAN all Caps

**You can only have one .MAN file in the work folder at a time

65.
66. The basics are if an option is enabled it will say “aktiv” if its not it will say “nicht_aktiv”
67. Search for the option “BC_DIGITAL_V” and change the value from “nicht_aktiv” to “aktiv”
68. File >save
69. Back to NCS now hit F5 for basic functions
70. Select “coapiReadSgGetFswPsw” and ok.. you are basically telling NCS to read all the values
from your fsw_psw.man file. You will see a screen similar to this just press ok.

E60

71.
72. Then you should get this.

73.
74. Press ok.
75. Ok now take a look where it says “JOBNAME = CODIERDATEN_LESEN”
76. We need to change that to a coding function because we want to write the changes to the
module.
77. Select F2 “job” select SG_CODIEREN and press ok
78. Then press F3 to execute the job. Will gray out for some time.. now you will see this . notice the
“coding ended’ message

E63 (E60)

E60

79.
80. Assuming no errors.. CONGRATS you now have digital speed .
81. Press the BC button to scroll by MPG, MLS and MPH eventually you will see “V= 0 mph”..
82. After a couple of times you will get used to the process.. to code other options you just have to
know which module controls them. Which value or values to change. Always do your research.
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