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      10-02-2017, 01:57 PM   #1
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Heads up in case anyone is interested. Dinan has a sale on

all software.... Engine software $ 314 and DCT software is $134... These number are good until October 31
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Thank you for sharing the promotion! As a friendly note to the community, I would strongly discourage anyone from purchasing Dinan software for any vehicle. It was installed on my E61 and removing it has been a nightmare.

Unlike companies such as BPM, or Evolve, when working with Dinan the vehicle is flashed and all SW is maintained by the dealership/Dinan. Removal costs ~2-3 hours dealership labor, and locks the ECU.

I've paid for 5-hours of labor, across two different visits to the dealer, including assistance from BMW NA field service to re-program the whole vehicle and cannot get this off the vehicle! Thankfully BPM Sport has the technical know-how to tackle this
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Thank you for sharing the promotion! As a friendly note to the community, I would strongly discourage anyone from purchasing Dinan software for any vehicle. It was installed on my E61 and removing it has been a nightmare.

Unlike companies such as BPM, or Evolve, when working with Dinan the vehicle is flashed and all SW is maintained by the dealership/Dinan. Removal costs ~2-3 hours dealership labor, and locks the ECU.

I've paid for 5-hours of labor, across two different visits to the dealer, including assistance from BMW NA field service to re-program the whole vehicle and cannot get this off the vehicle! Thankfully BPM Sport has the technical know-how to tackle this
that really sucks. why would you want to remove it?
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      10-02-2017, 02:53 PM   #4
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One reason is that in states that require emission inspections it renders the vehicle incapable of passing. Dinan will tell you that you must successfully complete a drive cycle and the modules will set to ready. It’s BS.
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One reason is that in states that require emission inspections it renders the vehicle incapable of passing. Dinan will tell you that you must successfully complete a drive cycle and the modules will set to ready. It’s BS.
That’s a very good point and solidifies why you should go w a tuner that has an end user ‘program’ that lets the user upload/download and read error codes.
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That's unfortunate.
Had smog last week on E60 M5 here in CA with Dinan flash tune.
Just did it last week.
Flashed ECU to stock with Autologic, smog car and re-program Dinan tune.
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Why did you remove your Dinan software?? state emission test?? please elaborate? I live in NJ so I don't see any issue on my end?? The engine and dct software are the only upgrades planned on my car
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dinan's website says it is 50 state emissions legal. not sure why you would need to remove it...
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all software.... Engine software $ 314 and DCT software is $134... These number are good until October 31
Hows the Dinan flash? Seems like a good deal!
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I think the people having obd2 issues bought a different Dinan tune than the stage 1 that is on sale. The stage 1 is 50 state legal and will not affect obd2 inspection, but it also wont do anything you can feel other than raising the rpm limiter to 8600. I bought it earlier this year when it was on sale for $279. In hindsight, I should have paid twice as much for one off the non-Dinan tunes like the Alpine though I am not convinced any of these tunes really do much.
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Hows the Dinan flash? Seems like a good deal!
I will be getting DINAN installed in two weeks when I take my car in for an oil change. Two weeks ago I had my 2011 M3 software upgraded to the latest software offered by BMW.
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Thank you for sharing the promotion! As a friendly note to the community, I would strongly discourage anyone from purchasing Dinan software for any vehicle. It was installed on my E61 and removing it has been a nightmare.

Unlike companies such as BPM, or Evolve, when working with Dinan the vehicle is flashed and all SW is maintained by the dealership/Dinan. Removal costs ~2-3 hours dealership labor, and locks the ECU.

I've paid for 5-hours of labor, across two different visits to the dealer, including assistance from BMW NA field service to re-program the whole vehicle and cannot get this off the vehicle! Thankfully BPM Sport has the technical know-how to tackle this
Removal simply requires the dealership or BMW shop to flash it to stock programming. Thats it. Its about as simple a procedure as there is unless there is other factors involved or the dealership itself is questionable.

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One reason is that in states that require emission inspections it renders the vehicle incapable of passing. Dinan will tell you that you must successfully complete a drive cycle and the modules will set to ready. It’s BS.
Only reason a Dinan tune wouldn't pass emissions readiness would be if you are using the middle exhaust tune (for the x-pipe/middle exhaust which removed CATs) which is no longer offered for exactly that reason. It was meant for RACE CARS only which no one ever abided by. Once the tune is reverted to the stage 1 or removed entirely and the CATs are re-installed then the modules will set to ready once a drive cycle is complete (but it takes some driving and time to check all of the "buckets" to get to that point).

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all software.... Engine software $ 314 and DCT software is $134... These number are good until October 31
Its not a sale. Its a permanent price drop. There is no end date.

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That’s a very good point and solidifies why you should go w a tuner that has an end user ‘program’ that lets the user upload/download and read error codes.
We also offer a self-install kit now (a bit extra to cover the cabling/hardware involved) that allows you to self install / flash back to stock whenever you desire. This is only available for stage 1 kits but for the E9x M3 that's the only option anyway.
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I will be getting DINAN installed in two weeks when I take my car in for an oil change. Two weeks ago I had my 2011 M3 software upgraded to the latest software offered by BMW.
I have read that the Dinan tune is based on the older 231e software. I had just my engine software updated to 240e on my 08M3 a couple of years before the Dinan flash and noticed more of an improvement from the 240e than I did from the Dinan flash, which I think may have been based on older software.
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that really sucks. why would you want to remove it?
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Why did you remove your Dinan software?? state emission test?? please elaborate? I live in NJ so I don't see any issue on my end?? The engine and dct software are the only upgrades planned on my car
I opted to remove as I wanted to consolidate all my vehicles onto one provider that afforded increased capability and self-install options.

What I will remark is that with the Dinan SW installed the vehicle has has zero issue when going through Oregon DEQ (plug-in OBD-II style.)

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Removal simply requires the dealership or BMW shop to flash it to stock programming. Thats it. Its about as simple a procedure as there is unless there is other factors involved or the dealership itself is questionable.
While that may be the claim, I can confirm that after two visits to the dealership (2-hours labor & a 3-hours labor, respectively) and print-outs from your UI stating that the SW is not on the car, the ECU remains locked and is unable to be read by other companies. What would be sincerely appreciated would be a white-paper from your group to be sent to your re-sellers on how to properly remove the SW.

I absolutely look to Dinan for hardware offerings on these and other BMWs, however based upon the experience with my E61 will stick to other tuning providers.

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Dinan is this statement below true? I just had my 2011 upgraded to the latest software upgrade from BMW..I don't want to lose any of BMW's upgraded software. The last update by bmw was 2016. I have attached my upgrade info.

Dinan ---a member has stated this statement:

"I have read that the Dinan tune is based on the older 231e software. I had just my engine software updated to 240e on my 08M3 a couple of years before the Dinan flash and noticed more of an improvement from the 240e than I did from the Dinan flash, which I think may have been based on older software."










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Removal simply requires the dealership or BMW shop to flash it to stock programming. Thats it. Its about as simple a procedure as there is unless there is other factors involved or the dealership itself is questionable.



Only reason a Dinan tune wouldn't pass emissions readiness would be if you are using the middle exhaust tune (for the x-pipe/middle exhaust which removed CATs) which is no longer offered for exactly that reason. It was meant for RACE CARS only which no one ever abided by. Once the tune is reverted to the stage 1 or removed entirely and the CATs are re-installed then the modules will set to ready once a drive cycle is complete (but it takes some driving and time to check all of the "buckets" to get to that point).



Its not a sale. Its a permanent price drop. There is no end date.



We also offer a self-install kit now (a bit extra to cover the cabling/hardware involved) that allows you to self install / flash back to stock whenever you desire. This is only available for stage 1 kits but for the E9x M3 that's the only option anyway.
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While that may be the claim, I can confirm that after two visits to the dealership (2-hours labor & a 3-hours labor, respectively) and print-outs from your UI stating that the SW is not on the car, the ECU remains locked and is unable to be read by other companies. What would be sincerely appreciated would be a white-paper from your group to be sent to your re-sellers on how to properly remove the SW.
We will just have to agree to disagree. No one in this building is aware of any way the DME can be locked as a result of using our software. There is potentially a Dinan lock on the DME (PCU/BCU) / VIN when programming but that is strictly a Dinan server side lock to protect our IP and has nothing to do with the actual DME which is unaffected. If you have a moment could you PM the name of the dealer involved and the last 7 of the VIN of the vehicle and I will at least do a cursory back-end check to see if something else was at play from the old records.

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Dinan is this statement below true? I just had my 2011 upgraded to the latest software upgrade from BMW..I don't want to lose any of BMW's upgraded software. The last update by bmw was 2016. I have attached my upgrade info.

Dinan ---a member has stated this statement:

"I have read that the Dinan tune is based on the older 231e software. I had just my engine software updated to 240e on my 08M3 a couple of years before the Dinan flash and noticed more of an improvement from the 240e than I did from the Dinan flash, which I think may have been based on older software."
The Dinan software tune is not "based" on anything. The tune itself is the same regardless of what variant of the BMW software is on the car. When BMW updates the base software we move the tune adjustments over to the newer variant so that it is supported as well. We do not update the base software to 240e... we simply mate the tune to whatever base is on the vehicle.
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Great deals here, especially the DCT software. I have both the Dinan engine and DCT software, both made improvements, but thought the DCT made a bigger improvement.

My dealer charged me like 1/2 hour labor to install, no issues. Would recommend.
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I think the people having obd2 issues bought a different Dinan tune than the stage 1 that is on sale. The stage 1 is 50 state legal and will not affect obd2 inspection, but it also wont do anything you can feel other than raising the rpm limiter to 8600. I bought it earlier this year when it was on sale for $279. In hindsight, I should have paid twice as much for one off the non-Dinan tunes like the Alpine though I am not convinced any of these tunes really do much.
Dinan only has the Stage 1 for the e92 now... No more Stage 2 is what I was told today.
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The Dinan software tune is not "based" on anything. The tune itself is the same regardless of what variant of the BMW software is on the car. When BMW updates the base software we move the tune adjustments over to the newer variant so that it is supported as well. We do not update the base software to 240e... we simply mate the tune to whatever base is on the vehicle.
This is good to hear because if I recall, Mike Benvo stated that the Dinan tune reverts you to an older version of the DME software.
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Dinan states above it does not revert

The Dinan software tune is not "based" on anything. The tune itself is the same regardless of what variant of the BMW software is on the car. When BMW updates the base software we move the tune adjustments over to the newer variant so that it is supported as well. We do not update the base software to 240e... we simply mate the tune to whatever base is on the vehicle.

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This is good to hear because if I recall, Mike Benvo stated that the Dinan tune reverts you to an older version of the DME software.
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Great deals here, especially the DCT software. I have both the Dinan engine and DCT software, both made improvements, but thought the DCT made a bigger improvement.

My dealer charged me like 1/2 hour labor to install, no issues. Would recommend.
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We will just have to agree to disagree. No one in this building is aware of any way the DME can be locked as a result of using our software. There is potentially a Dinan lock on the DME (PCU/BCU) / VIN when programming but that is strictly a Dinan server side lock to protect our IP and has nothing to do with the actual DME which is unaffected. If you have a moment could you PM the name of the dealer involved and the last 7 of the VIN of the vehicle and I will at least do a cursory back-end check to see if something else was at play from the old records.
Thank you very much! I have sent the info requested.
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Let's say I had only the DMW software updated to 240E using autologic and the rest of the vehicle software on my 2008 remained original or perhaps was updated between 2008 and 2012 while it was dealer serviced. Would Dinan's search for the base reveal the updated DME software?
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