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      10-11-2020, 02:35 PM   #10
pdX5M
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Saw that newtis was shut down the other day and was pretty bummed. I wonder if there is some sort of archive of the site out there somewhere that will pop up soon. Definitely need to find another source for repair info. The prices BMW is trying to charge for access is insane.

Anyone know where the best source to install ista+ is? I did some searching a while back and some of the sites claiming to host the download didn't seem very reputable.
Bimmergeeks site has ISTA in their downloads section, it's huge (10gig) and you need to sign up with megadrive or what's it's called to download in a reasonable amount of time. It's the version I'm using and works excellent. I still used newtis instead of pulling up ISTA as it was just more convenient but at least with ISTA installed you have access to the entire workshop manual and don't need an internet connection. Follow the readme and watch the videos on YouTube on how to install. It's a bit of a pain.

On a side note, I was messing around in ISTA the other day and there's a section that will give you a read out of the fuel quality from your last five fill ups and also for entire life of the car. It does this by recording how noisy the knocks sensors have been. I've been using 4oz of boostane with 91 octane and all my fill ups have recorded in the excellent 96+ octane rating. Kinda cool and handy to check if you were buying a car, it also shows how many times someone used cheap gas in it.
That's good to know about the boostane. We have 92 octane here in Oregon and I use some 4oz boostane every few fillups and when I'm not using boostane I'll usually throw a bottle of Berryman B12 Chemtool in there to keep stuff clean.

And appreciate the info on the ISTA+ download. I'll have to get if figured out before they pull that as you said.
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