Hi,

I've been having a look at the ecuedit database here and I dont quite understand something.

Quite a few cars come up as the tool required is DBM - CMD x.x.x, but I know that some of these cars can be mapped through the obd port. Doesnt BDM require you to take the ECU out of the car and directly connect to it?

Cheers,

Paul.

Paul R wrote:Hi,

I've been having a look at the ecuedit database here and I dont quite understand something.

Quite a few cars come up as the tool required is DBM - CMD x.x.x, but I know that some of these cars can be mapped through the obd port. Doesnt BDM require you to take the ECU out of the car and directly connect to it?

Cheers,

Paul.

Depend on flasher,
the database does not contain all possible flashers that are available on this planet :)
For BDM you have to take off the ECU, open it and than connect it properly to "BDM pads/pins" on the board...

ecuedit wrote:

Paul R wrote:Hi,

I've been having a look at the ecuedit database here and I dont quite understand something.

Quite a few cars come up as the tool required is DBM - CMD x.x.x, but I know that some of these cars can be mapped through the obd port. Doesnt BDM require you to take the ECU out of the car and directly connect to it?

Cheers,

Paul.

Depend on flasher,
the database does not contain all possible flashers that are available on this planet :)
For BDM you have to take off the ECU, open it and than connect it properly to "BDM pads/pins" on the board...

Oh Right. I thought that if you had to open the ecu and connect with BDM, then that was the only way of doing it? If you can do it through the OBD port, why bother with BDM?

OK, let me pick a specific car - in your DB it comes up as BDM. 2008 Merc C63AMG 6.2 petrol. How do I find out which other flash tools will be able to flash the ECU?

Cheers,

Paul.

Hi,
you will realise why to flash ECU via BDM and not OBD when you destroy one VERY expensive ECU...
IF you do it via BDM you can make full backup, to clone the complete ecu if needed or restore...

OBD is not safe, period.

If you do not find the car in db, than it is missing here :lol:

cheers

Now Ive a 2Mbyte file read from my EDC16C39 (M58BW016DB Flash).

What else (full) can I read ? ....also the MPC562 contens maybe or......?