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      05-19-2015, 10:49 PM   #108
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Thanks for the update. Good info to know.

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Originally Posted by GSR Autosport View Post
I just wanted to clarify comments made above. ECU updates do come from BMW but most of the time they are updating only portions of the binary - not all code in the entire ECU. To your point there are special circumstances that a very broad ECU update could potentially overwrite some or all of the code we have changed. In those cases we would absolutely reflash the ECU.

An important point about reflashing is that we are only updating the binary we need to so we would NOT copy over the changes that BMW made to fix other issues.
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