Help to program CA fob

katchup · 11-29-2015, 10:33 PM

Alright I searched and searched and tried and tried with no luck. Hoping someone else had maybe the same problem and was able to find a solution before I pay my stealership.

Just got a new f30 with comfort access. Dealer sent me(I bought it out of town) a brand new spare fob. It has been cut to my car already. So Im trying to program it using the only instructions I saw online. The way everyone says to do it(hold fob to column, start car) does not work.

Basically if I have both fobs in the car and put the old one up to the spot on the column it doesn't recognize it at all. But if I leave the original fob inside the house and I have just the new one, I can get the console to pop up and say place fob on steering column. But I can not get it say this if the other one is in distance. So I literally had my wife run me the original key to try and start the car once that pops up, and on out of about 20 tries I got it to pop up on the idrive saying name the profile, but then it went away within a second and it didn't program the key.

Any secrets???

Dang3r · 11-30-2015, 01:54 AM

I got this when I lost one of the keys and ordered a spare one. After receiving the third (found the lost one again) I would code them as back-backup and that wont work, caused by BMW policy to leave at least only 2 keys at once active.
But that seems not to be your problem, you have one key and want one more to work, in total 2, right?

katchup · 11-30-2015, 03:48 AM

Correct. So just two. Do you have to erase a key somehow? Maybe it still thinks the lost one is active??

Dang3r · 11-30-2015, 01:38 PM

Yes, the dealer said, that a maximum amount of 2 keys could be active at the same time. So if I want another key to work, I had to let disable one of them before the other can get to work. But in total are only two keys active and the third one is a still spare.

katchup · 11-30-2015, 02:25 PM

Hmm. So the third "lost one" needs deactivated some how?

katchup · 11-30-2015, 04:04 PM

***update***

So stopped by the dealer and he did it in 30 seconds. Basically procedure involved nothing I read online. He wanted original key at least 20 yards away. Took the new key inside the car and said he had to do a 3 button hold procedure to program it.

Dang3r · 12-01-2015, 03:20 AM

I see, but this is only valid until you got not more than in total 2 keys active.
Glad to read that you'd solved your problem.

209BMW · 12-01-2015, 09:44 AM

Would you know which three buttons?

katchup · 12-01-2015, 10:50 AM

Yea he didn't say anything about deactivating the old one.

And he didn't tell me the three when I asked. Just replied it's complicated process.

11-29-2015, 10:33 PM	#1
katchup Lieutenant Colonel 189 Rep 1,526 Posts Drives: F80 m3 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Portland, OR iTrader: (9)	Help to program CA fob Alright I searched and searched and tried and tried with no luck. Hoping someone else had maybe the same problem and was able to find a solution before I pay my stealership. Just got a new f30 with comfort access. Dealer sent me(I bought it out of town) a brand new spare fob. It has been cut to my car already. So Im trying to program it using the only instructions I saw online. The way everyone says to do it(hold fob to column, start car) does not work. Basically if I have both fobs in the car and put the old one up to the spot on the column it doesn't recognize it at all. But if I leave the original fob inside the house and I have just the new one, I can get the console to pop up and say place fob on steering column. But I can not get it say this if the other one is in distance. So I literally had my wife run me the original key to try and start the car once that pops up, and on out of about 20 tries I got it to pop up on the idrive saying name the profile, but then it went away within a second and it didn't program the key. Any secrets??? __________________ 2016 MW ZCP F80 M3(current) 2016 SO ZCP 6MT F82 M4(sold) 2015 MW 6MT F80 M3(sold) Individual Hellrot ZCP E92 M3(sold)
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11-30-2015, 01:54 AM	#2
Dang3r Schmollbraten 12512 Rep 1,985 Posts Drives: M4CPC // HP4 Comp. Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Liandri Central Core iTrader: (0)	I got this when I lost one of the keys and ordered a spare one. After receiving the third (found the lost one again) I would code them as back-backup and that wont work, caused by BMW policy to leave at least only 2 keys at once active. But that seems not to be your problem, you have one key and want one more to work, in total 2, right? __________________ Citizen of ///M - Town, where too much is just right Some say, that my scrotum has its own small gravity field and when Im slowing down that brake lights come on at my buttox
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11-30-2015, 03:48 AM	#3
katchup Lieutenant Colonel 189 Rep 1,526 Posts Drives: F80 m3 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Portland, OR iTrader: (9)	Correct. So just two. Do you have to erase a key somehow? Maybe it still thinks the lost one is active?? __________________ 2016 MW ZCP F80 M3(current) 2016 SO ZCP 6MT F82 M4(sold) 2015 MW 6MT F80 M3(sold) Individual Hellrot ZCP E92 M3(sold)
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11-30-2015, 01:38 PM	#4
Dang3r Schmollbraten 12512 Rep 1,985 Posts Drives: M4CPC // HP4 Comp. Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Liandri Central Core iTrader: (0)	Yes, the dealer said, that a maximum amount of 2 keys could be active at the same time. So if I want another key to work, I had to let disable one of them before the other can get to work. But in total are only two keys active and the third one is a still spare. __________________ Citizen of ///M - Town, where too much is just right Some say, that my scrotum has its own small gravity field and when Im slowing down that brake lights come on at my buttox
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11-30-2015, 02:25 PM	#5
katchup Lieutenant Colonel 189 Rep 1,526 Posts Drives: F80 m3 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Portland, OR iTrader: (9)	Hmm. So the third "lost one" needs deactivated some how? __________________ 2016 MW ZCP F80 M3(current) 2016 SO ZCP 6MT F82 M4(sold) 2015 MW 6MT F80 M3(sold) Individual Hellrot ZCP E92 M3(sold)
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11-30-2015, 04:04 PM	#6
katchup Lieutenant Colonel 189 Rep 1,526 Posts Drives: F80 m3 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Portland, OR iTrader: (9)	*update* So stopped by the dealer and he did it in 30 seconds. Basically procedure involved nothing I read online. He wanted original key at least 20 yards away. Took the new key inside the car and said he had to do a 3 button hold procedure to program it. __________________ 2016 MW ZCP F80 M3(current) 2016 SO ZCP 6MT F82 M4(sold) 2015 MW 6MT F80 M3(sold) Individual Hellrot ZCP E92 M3(sold)
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12-01-2015, 03:20 AM	#7
Dang3r Schmollbraten 12512 Rep 1,985 Posts Drives: M4CPC // HP4 Comp. Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Liandri Central Core iTrader: (0)	I see, but this is only valid until you got not more than in total 2 keys active. Glad to read that you'd solved your problem. __________________ Citizen of ///M - Town, where too much is just right Some say, that my scrotum has its own small gravity field and when Im slowing down that brake lights come on at my buttox
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12-01-2015, 09:44 AM	#8
209BMW New Member 6 Rep 26 Posts Drives: 2013 BMW 328i X-Drive Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: LI NY iTrader: (0)	Would you know which three buttons?
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12-01-2015, 10:50 AM	#9
katchup Lieutenant Colonel 189 Rep 1,526 Posts Drives: F80 m3 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Portland, OR iTrader: (9)	Yea he didn't say anything about deactivating the old one. And he didn't tell me the three when I asked. Just replied it's complicated process. __________________ 2016 MW ZCP F80 M3(current) 2016 SO ZCP 6MT F82 M4(sold) 2015 MW 6MT F80 M3(sold) Individual Hellrot ZCP E92 M3(sold)
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