Our rights to repair?

ISTA+ is bit cumbersome to get hands on at first but once you get the hang of things, "fairly" straightforward. I'll try to round up some steps to get hold of ISTA.

!!! Everything is in there, for DIYer's. !!!

One usually don't need to have the latest app, just the data portion.




Also,

https://www.newtis.info/tisv2/a/en/ <<---- provide feedback to get access to,




eg. OEM sites, pay to play, especially if you want ETK access to latest vehicles (with vin's),

https://bmwtechinfo.bmwgroup.com/




bmw aos

https://aos.bmwgroup.com/
https://aos.bmwna.com/




EDIT's:

disclaimers:

i'm not an expert on these tools, just someone that enjoy using them as a hobbyist (and occasional DIYer)

with that said, there are two folks online that have contributed, and continues to contribute to bmw tools scenes
a) sedoy << original public ista standalone, last public standalone release was 4.37.4x
b) shawnsheridan << all things ista/ispi updates, i do see this user presence in this forum time and time,

now, there is bmw factory service tech present in this forum ----> to them, all these are probably seen as "pirates" or, is it...

anyway... there are tons, and tons of tutorial contents online, including youtube for all of these materials, where to get, how to get (some what legit) licenses, etc.

just going to focus on what i have from my notes

two methods to grab the bits, i have 5Gb up/down fiber isp, so bandwidth isn't much of issue,
a) mega.nz << what i use most, not free, but i pay month to month as needed,
b) torrents << have used, free


Even if you are not hooking up to the car to run diag, get test plans, etc., ISTA still has some benefit of finding repair operations for your vehicle including torque specs, etc.

Kina like your repair/maintenance encyclopedia, from the factory,



The SIB's, however, won't be with ISTA. << you can hunt those down freely, eg. nhtsb site under g01/g02 products, i typically visit this site, once a month,


The latest that is floating around online as a (free) ista standalone installer seems to be 4.39.2x, here,

https://mega.nz/folder/v3pS3LKY#LgNFPfPjcuCm3BsRENZrEw << are we allowed in this forum to post link as such?

Probably simplest to start with standalone variant of ista, albeit bit older than what's currently available (requires some sort of license)

tbd...



EDIT's:

Making available 4.39.2x ISTA "standalone" (license pre-activated, good for life i guess) in google drive, once upload complete (~134 GB) shouldn't need to resort to mega.nz and torrent methods.

4.39.2x --> i-level of g01 s15a is 22-11-540 sw version

And latest psdz 4.43.31 --> i-level of g01 s15a is 23-07-550 sw version

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t_ntFs0RsE93guaAG97dFDBkmlsu2M6U





Close the ista, remove the 4.39.2x psdzdata/ folder and extract the 4.43.31 psdzdata archive in the same path, << there maybe a simpler, turn key solution to doing this all manually,



When ista starts up, the programming data still says 4.39.20, i think there is way to have that reflect the correct data version (???).

eg.

Hello, thanks again for providing the document with the steps for the X3. By any chance would you have access to the steps for the same procedure on a 2020 M235iX gran coupe?

np...

step 0 - online search "for sale 2020 m235ix"

step 1 - eg. vin WBA13AL09L7F61743

step 2 -



step 3 -



step 4 -



steep 5 -



step 6 -



step 7 -

Just adding credence to this thread...ista is the most useful digital tool on my toolbox. It can do all of the diagnostics if you hook it up to the car, and it has full repair instructions for everything you need. It's been incredibly helpful and I really recommend it if you are maintaining your own BMW.

Greatly appreciate this information. Was able to get access to the repair manual and since I do so my own work, this is a great tool! Thank you!

Add google drive link to 4.39.2x ISTA standalone installation download

dinan5m3 wrote

Add google drive link to 4.39.2x ISTA standalone installation download

Top tier man, thanks a million!

eg.

tsarty wrote

Tried google and couldn't produce much info, curious on the install procedures of a driveshaft. Car is a 2022 and looking to install a one piece. Any special tools required or is it pretty straightforward? I've changed a few on my Subaru, but BMW likes to do things differently. Thank you for your input!

FWIW, get, download yourself BMW ISTA tool described here,

https://x3.xbimmers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2048646

Afterwards,

Looking up a sample 2022 g01 x3 m40i vin online as an example,

abbike18 wrote

Just adding credence to this thread...ista is the most useful digital tool on my toolbox. It can do all of the diagnostics if you hook it up to the car, and it has full repair instructions for everything you need. It's been incredibly helpful and I really recommend it if you are maintaining your own BMW.

The only caveat to this is that you HAVE TO use an OEM ICOM Next, otherwise you cant change anything. I have an enet cable and the car would not connect at all, period.
A fellow X3 enthusiast thats on the G01 subforum lent me his and sure enough, was able to hook up and do istep upgrade, etc.

The box is like 600 bucks online.

https://x3.xbimmers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1984198

saabster2010 wrote

The only caveat to this is that you HAVE TO use an OEM ICOM Next, otherwise you cant change anything. I have an enet cable and the car would not connect at all, period.


A fellow X3 enthusiast thats on the G01 subforum lent me his and sure enough, was able to hook up and do istep upgrade, etc.


the box is like 600 bucks online.

For i-level update, i.e. software update, yes, but that depends. Depends on what "flavor" of ISTA you are running.

Using the 4.39.2x standalone that is pre-activated supports programming with enet (i'm fairly certain).

But if you are running a "licensed" variant, then unless you have a "patch" for using ENET for software update, then yes, need ICOM, clone or real version.

EDIT:

Read that linked page, and yes, ISTA/P is the wrong app. In fact, i would use ISTA/P to "program" my E cars.

As for "not" connecting, that's probably why.

dinan5m3 wrote

For i-level update, i.e. software update, yes, but that depends. Depends on what "flavor" of ISTA you are running.

Using the 4.39.2x standalone that is pre-activated supports programming with enet (i'm fairly certain).

But if you are running a "licensed" variant, then unless you have a "patch" for using ENET for software update, then yes, need ICOM, clone or real version.

EDIT:

Read that linked page, and yes, ISTA/P is the wrong app. In fact, i would use ISTA/P to "program" my E cars.

As for "not" connecting, that's probably why.

Thanks for the extra info. I was using ista/p at first, but then @mattsheng mentioned i need to use "regular" ista, and so i did. I was able to read the car but got stuck at the action plan.


I'll give this one a whirl with the enet cable as soon as i get my truck back from the stealer

I've got few PMs asking if we can have latest psdzdata available here. Well, let's see...

134GB is a pretty healthy program size.

Are you guys running this on a dedicated laptop or do you keep it on external storage?

COM40 wrote

134GB is a pretty healthy program size.

Are you guys running this on a dedicated laptop or do you keep it on external storage?

There is some work going on by few individuals to try to break apart the data part of ista by the "models", similar to how the sp daten files were broken up by the models, for the bmw standard tools. Seriously, do i care about all models in the data portion of ista when i just own s15a g01... sigh...

You can install in external drive, c:, d:, ...

Most people tend to run the program on laptop, just because of portability to hookup to the car(s).

First of all, thank you for your time and sharing !

I am trying to complete the download of the SDP_4.39.20 large file, for several days, but still getting "Download quota exceeded for this file" on Google Drive.
What can be done or should I do ?

dinan5m3 wrote

There is some work going on by few individuals to try to break apart the data part of ista by the "models", similar to how the sp daten files were broken up by the models, for the bmw standard tools. Seriously, do i care about all models in the data portion of ista when i just own s15a g01... sigh...

You can install in external drive, c:, d:, ...

Most people tend to run the program on laptop, just because of portability to hookup to the car(s).

I wonder if it could be installed on a cloud server. From some quick googling it sounds fairly complex to set up the USB pass through though, and might have a lot of latency.

COM40 wrote

134GB is a pretty healthy program size.

Are you guys running this on a dedicated laptop or do you keep it on external storage?

I’m using external storage attached to a Surface.

avi66 wrote

I’m using external storage attached to a Surface.

I really need to do that. So stupid of me.

dinan5m3 wrote

I've got few PMs asking if we can have latest psdzdata available here. Well, let's see...

Added to the OP.

radunre wrote

First of all, thank you for your time and sharing !

I am trying to complete the download of the SDP_4.39.20 large file, for several days, but still getting "Download quota exceeded for this file" on Google Drive.
What can be done or should I do ?

I can look into this.

This is awesome! Good info. Having access to all this information is awesome. Will be taking a look this weekend.

Thank you for the info and providing a download, much appreciated. I've used ISTA many times with my previous F31 and it's great to get an updated version that works with the G01.

clockwater wrote

Hey guys which google drive file are we supposed to download for ISTA +?

v4.43.31_PSdZData.7z 119.12gb

or the folder 4.39.2x and everything inside?

or the folder 4.39.2x and everything inside? << you can start with this,

Sorry, im confused. So for my G01 i should dl both files (250gigs total)?