[Hoping4Dravit]

Would love to do so. And then revert to normal next winter.
I have seen some people dremel the tabs but thats a permanent modification.
And rather not just disconnect it and deal with a CEL.

Thanks!

[chutoy]

Following.. I asked about the same and got your same responses. Thought this may be codeable with ISTA as I saw a YT video of someone doing this and I took a screenshot. I was hoping to leave them open to vinyl wrap them

Proof-of-Concept

[chutoy]

I asked BimmerCode if they could add it and while they “could”, they won’t because no demand for it

[MaximK]

Originally Posted by chutoy

I asked BimmerCode if they could add it and while they “could”, they won’t because no demand for it

Why would brag so much , when is some good old coding and active grills will stay always open

[chutoy]

Originally Posted by MaximK

Why would brag so much , when is some good old coding and active grills will stay always open

I wouldn’t be bragging about it if it doesn’t work… just a PSA for those who don’t do coding

[MaximK]

Originally Posted by chutoy

I wouldn’t be bragging about it if it doesn’t work… just a PSA for those who don’t do coding

Sorry my misswrite , i was mentioning about the email you received, like developing etc . if u want keep them open dm me i l open it for you remotely

[Hoping4Dravit]

Originally Posted by chutoy

I asked BimmerCode if they could add it and while they “could”, they won’t because no demand for it

That would be great if they would add that.

[G20Debug]

Originally Posted by MaximK

Sorry my misswrite , i was mentioning about the email you received, like developing etc . if u want keep them open dm me i l open it for you remotely

Ugh I’m too new to this forum so I can’t send DMs yet ☹️

[Hoping4Dravit]

Originally Posted by MaximK

Sorry my misswrite , i was mentioning about the email you received, like developing etc . if u want keep them open dm me i l open it for you remotely

Wow! What is needed in order for you to do it remotely? Price?

Will it leave them open without any warning lights?
Thanks

[MaximK]

Originally Posted by Hoping4Dravit

Wow! What is needed in order for you to do it remotely? Price?

Will it leave them open without any warning lights?
Thanks

sorry my late reply. yes without any warning lights

[dustwhyn]

Originally Posted by MaximK

sorry my late reply. yes without any warning lights

Will they stay open permanently as well? I recently had my front bumper and shutter system replaced due to running over a tire on the highway in the middle of the night and despite the body shop sending the car off to be calibrated twice, I’m still getting a CEL for the upper stop not being recognized for the lower shutter system. I’m over it at this point and considering just deleting the active shutters and coding out all the errors.

[Calvindubois]

Hi there! I’d like to do this on my g20 lci

[Mr.G20 M340]

Most tuning platforms offer the option of keeping grille open at all times. Unfortunately, if your active grill is broken or not communicating properly you would have to replace the grill before trying to make a stay open because I am currently having ya that issue. I cannot have my grill stay open when I try to do it through the tune. It clears a check engine light, but once you start the car up again, the check engine light comes back, and I think this is messing with my tune.
I really don’t understand why Bmw forced these stupid active grilles onto people, especially people who live in California, where the coldest it get is 45°.

[mrpingu]

Originally Posted by MaximK

sorry my late reply. yes without any warning lights

Mind sharing the coding variables / steps?

Edit:
Possibly
AKKS (AktiveKühlKlappenSteuerung)
LKS_oben (LüftungsKlappenSteuerung_Oben)
LKS_unten (LüftungsKlappenSteuerung_Unten

in DME ecu, correct?

[Calvindubois]

Originally Posted by chutoy

I asked BimmerCode if they could add it and while they “could”, they won’t because no demand for it

They said not possible for me

[mrpingu]

Originally Posted by Calvindubois

Right? Not sure why people gatekeep and trying to charge on this forum..

Very irritating, but try the parameters I posted above, might be working

[Calvindubois]

Originally Posted by mrpingu

Very irritating, but try the parameters I posted above, might be working

I want to try but not sure which would be what…

[mrpingu]

Would say put everything to 0, say to the vehicle «not installed» but I don’t know if you have use ISTA first to force it in open position first. As you cannot code DME with motor on.

Another trick might be; motor on and hope the go in open position. Then disconnect the cable and code both to 00 and hope you don’t have an error. I don’t know as I don’t have this car.

[dustwhyn]

Editing the AKKS and LKS values will still return an error code, just a different one. The car will tell you that there are erroneous values stored in the vehicle’s code. From my understanding, this needs to be done via E-SYS using the DTC Inhibition menu for that specific module.

[mrpingu]

Originally Posted by dustwhyn

Editing the AKKS and LKS values will still return an error code, just a different one. The car will tell you that there are erroneous values stored in the vehicle’s code. From my understanding, this needs to be done via E-SYS using the DTC Inhibition menu for that specific module.

Do you happen to know the CC-ID of the error? If you know it can be coded out in KOMBI

[dustwhyn]

Originally Posted by mrpingu

Do you happen to know the CC-ID of the error? If you know it can be coded out in KOMBI

I do not. My previous reply is as far as I’ve gotten with my research.

[dustwhyn]

So after some digging, I found out that the “DemDtcInhibition” menu is, in fact accessible from BimmerCode and BimmerUtility expert modes. It’s 3002 under BDC. However, I have not had any luck using it to try to inhibit any of the resulting codes from physically removing my active grilles. The codes still populate as they did before.

From my understanding, you’re supposed to set the first value to 00 to disable the code, and the rest of the values will be the hex value of the error code split into two-character segments.