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Velos Tuning In Progress- crisis averted!
**Edit: A big shout you to the Velos team for being kick ass and helping me through my stupidity**
I want to inquire all those who have gone through the Velos tuning process. During the mod file writing, my handheld seems to not be progressing at all after 30-40 mins of the process - still a blank progress bar. Anyone gone thru this to settle my nerves that I didn't do something wrong? How long did your mod file take to write? When gathering the stock file, the progress bar chugged along to at least know you had begun something. Last edited by ncbimma; 03-13-2019 at 06:33 PM.. |
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Keys are in the car...my car requires the keys to go in the ignition (non-smart key).
Handheld is still on power and still at this point at that same screen but no progress bars. I'm afraid to unplug it and restart as I don't want to jack anything up and have a partially written ECU. |
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Guess that makes me dumb for doing this outside of east coast business hours...
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You have the vehicle hooked up to a battery stabilizer, I assume?
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I consider this my negligence. I read wrong and was assuming battery tender and not a battery stabilizer. Omar even stated this in email..ugh.
I pulled the plug for tonight, guess I'll be giving them a call in the morning to see how I can revert my stupidity |
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Lastly, if you worried for the battery, you can get one of these from your dealer like I did and pay an arm and a leg, or grab a CTEK off of Amazon, that's the company that makes the BMW branded one anyway and it's like half the price... you'll want the 4.3 8 stage one. |
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Could have sworn my process took~45 min, although maybe that was an initial step. Pretty sure I did mine first without any battery assistance/ maintenance for starters, but I did acquire one Omar suggested for round 2 ( that antsy feeling sucked and I got nervous heading into that 2nd ECU connect).
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Welp, add insult to injury- car is on charger to recharge for the day. Consolation prize is drive the 2002 to work.
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Talked to the Velos team and got a tech on the phone. I explained my actions, they defined the issue and how to resolve.
Turned out my old ass battery was dipping in the middle of the write sequence and would kill the process. Fired it up for a few with an approved maintainer and then was able to recover and once again, wrote the mod file. Lesson learned- heed the Omar email!! Solid bunch of guys, very supportive and made themselves available for questions- even though this was all my fault! First impression in m mode, prior 50% throttle feels as if it only takes 15% now. Very spunky! I look forward to learning all the power curves again. Thanks again! Last edited by ncbimma; 03-13-2019 at 07:01 PM.. |
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Oh and to answer the initial question of the OP...it took 20 mins to write the mod file.
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Ah that's right... we have a very similar setup, the noise is crazy during cold start for sure. It borders on too loud, but I love it. Been meaning to ask, do you have a journal for your 2002 anywhere? I really would love to get one and build it.
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