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Originally Posted by BMWGirlFL
There's an agreement to "provide access to such manufacturer's diagnostic and repair information system for purchase by owners and independent repair facilities on a daily, monthly and yearly subscription basis and upon fair and reasonable terms". I think there should be different rates for shops subscribing for profit and owners doing personal repairs or seeking information for personal use. I don't believe that kind of distinction has been made by any of the involved manufacturers.
https://www.nastf.org/files/public/O...ED_1_15_14.pdf |
There is a service called ALLDATA that does exactly what you describe. They have a professional website for commercial shops and a home website called ALLDATAdiy. The subscription is $50 for 5 years and $35 per model past the initial purchase. Unfortunately, BMW does not provide its technical data to ALLDATA.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."