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[StylePoints]

Hi everyone,

I am looking for information on how I can pull information off my 08 M3. I was recently pulled over for reckless driving. Police report stated I was peeling out, fishtailing, and making all sorts of noise with my tires. The truth can not be further from that. I was actually coming out of a plaza with a huge dip which I had to angle my car at less than 3mph just so I won't rip my bumper off. I believe I was pulled over basically for my car. So now I am going to court to fight this.

So basically to do the things which the officer claimed I was doing, I would have to have traction control turned off. So I was wondering if my car keeps data or logs showing the last time it was turned off. And if so, how would I pull this type of data off my car? Or does it register burn outs, fishtails and stuff of that nature. I would love to prove that my traction control was not turned off on that date of arrest. If you know anything that can help my case or where to go to get this data off my car I would really appreciate it. I called BMW and they didn't know how to help me. I did call a local shop and they said something about "freeze frame"?? But my local bmw service adv. didn't know what that was.

Any inputs gladly welcomed thnx!

[cooler2442]

Your car won't have any of this kind of information that you can pull. I'm sure BMW has it stored somewhere deeply in the DME for warranty concerns but no way they'll ever give it to you.

[StylePoints]

Originally Posted by cooler2442

Your car won't have any of this kind of information that you can pull. I'm sure BMW has it stored somewhere deeply in the DME for warranty concerns but no way they'll ever give it to you.

Are there any shops that would be able to pull this information from the DME?

[dparm]

My suggestion is you get a lawyer. There is a looming shitstorm as the Internet's droves of wannabe-lawyers will start posting legal advice in here.

Also, please change your thread title to something more useful, or no one else will ever be able to find it when they have a similar question.

[paddy335]

Flight Data Recorder

[cooler2442]

Originally Posted by StylePoints

Are there any shops that would be able to pull this information from the DME?

Regular shops won't be able to do it. Your best bet may be Mike Benvo or another vendor that does alot of tuning for the M3.

The DME may not even store the kind of information you're after either, so it would be taking a chance. Also if you present something like this to the judge, the officer can still claim you could have falsified the data or deleted what you didn't like.

Honestly, just go get a lawyer and have him fight it for you. Your best bet at winning.

[Ashley Schaeffer BMW]

Wannabee internet lawyer checking in.....

Best bet is to take it to court and keep asking for a continuation of the case and hope the cop doesnt show up. With his "sworn testimony" you are pretty much screwed since they will take his word over yours even if he is being dishonest. Depending on your previous driving record you should be able to get it knocked down to a lesser charge though.

[peeti]

Second on hitting up Benvo - from memory though, the event recorder is tied to the airbag deployment and not part of DME at all... it's pulled only in the case of insurance cases and even then under court order. There has been a bunch of noise about this in the last few years as people are afraid it will be used against them.

[kenwelch]

Originally Posted by StylePoints

Hi everyone,

I am looking for information on how I can pull information off my 08 M3. I was recently pulled over for reckless driving. Police report stated I was peeling out, fishtailing, and making all sorts of noise with my tires. The truth can not be further from that. I was actually coming out of a plaza with a huge dip which I had to angle my car at less than 3mph just so I won't rip my bumper off. I believe I was pulled over basically for my car. So now I am going to court to fight this.

So basically to do the things which the officer claimed I was doing, I would have to have traction control turned off. So I was wondering if my car keeps data or logs showing the last time it was turned off. And if so, how would I pull this type of data off my car? Or does it register burn outs, fishtails and stuff of that nature. I would love to prove that my traction control was not turned off on that date of arrest. If you know anything that can help my case or where to go to get this data off my car I would really appreciate it. I called BMW and they didn't know how to help me. I did call a local shop and they said something about "freeze frame"?? But my local bmw service adv. didn't know what that was.

Any inputs gladly welcomed thnx!

This is what you should use for your search:
BMW event data recorder

The device is explained in the article below and the 2013 list link also.

You will not be able to get data to support you case. The EDR records while you are driving and stores a short data collection before air bag deployment and a short data recording after.

You would have to have the air bags pop when he wrote your ticket or not drive your vehicle after. Then a BMW specialist would be able to extract the specific information for the accident event, which would not have the information you are requesting (settings, spinning tires). Since you have driven the vehicle the data has been erased and fresh data stored. Your 2008 model and mine is not on the list. Thanks I learned something today.

The term freeze frame is used for OBD II codes and data from the DME. When an engine code is set there is a small collection of data stored a single “snapshot” of engine data related to emissions.

Road and Track article:
http://www.roadandtrack.com/go/news/...data-recorders


2013 list of vehicles supported:
http://www.rimkus.com/uploads/pdfs/E...a_Recorder.pdf