Winter. Bring it on.

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And again we have doorlock heating as well

You wish

Reinhard

Why, don't we ?

taken today...... pains my heart to see this.

Millions of barrels of oil and all they buy is snow cannons

You could at least buy a cheap plastic cover, or is that even more expensive than butter?

dennis
It does depend on the build date of your car. All cars with EWS2 (Drive away protection) come without heated door locks. EWS2 started in 1/95.
Revtor found the correlation between EWS2 and the heated door locks in a tech doc covering the coding differences in some ECU. His reasoning is that the electrical heating of the door lock induces a magnetic/electric field surrounding the lock which may negatively affect the transponder chip inside the key (provided the key is in the lock).

Reinhard

Our blackbirds are singing spring songs since weeks and are building nests, storks didn't fly to Africa yet - times are changing

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Millions of barrels of oil and all they buy is snow cannons

You could at least buy a cheap plastic cover, or is that even more expensive than butter?

Reinhard

The only reason why she is there is because I'm moving into a new house on February 1st, so I sold my share of the garage me and a friend had to someone else.
From February 1st she will be put in my new houses carport, and as soon at spring comes I'm building a double garage.... so some of the oil money is being well spent
That is also why I'm not buying a plastic cover, that would probably do more damage than good, as it would rub against the paint in the wind, and once it's in the carport it should be fine.

Butter...... hehe... you want the truth about the butter thing?
In the past 6 months this low-carb diet has become very popular, because of this the dairy's have made a wrong estimate of just how much butter we need.
Then came Christmas preparations, and a whole lot of baking, it is tradition to make 7 kinds of cakes and cookies for Christmas, and these require LOTS of butter.
Combine the low-carb diet freaks with every household in the country making cookies...... and you run out of butter.
Mind you we have plenty of Margarine (useless for cookies), oils and other "plant butter", but we are out of butter made from milk, dairy butter.

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dennis
It does depend on the build date of your car. All cars with EWS2 (Drive away protection) come without heated door locks. EWS2 started in 1/95.
Revtor found the correlation between EWS2 and the heated door locks in a tech doc covering the coding differences in some ECU. His reasoning is that the electrical heating of the door lock induces a magnetic/electric field surrounding the lock which may negatively affect the transponder chip inside the key (provided the key is in the lock).

Reinhard

There are two good news. I thlnk I' ve read about production dates vs. lockheating probably one of your or Revtor's post before and if I remember correctly still all cars have the system but they are deactivated on the GM. And my prod. date is 4/94 so I have EWSI but I didn' t think mine was working because of cars poor condition.
But yesterday I' ve changed my car's whole locking system with new one from BMW Munich and been informed that brand new locking mechanism's heater is working perfectly which is confirmed by DIS ( as service says ) and service ceo himself .

( some advantages of having old car )

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...low-carb diet has become very popular...

Somehow this looks to me as if there might be a misunderstanding
If there´d have been a shortage of sugar I´d be with your theory...

For those that have missed that fat problem up North - seemingly pre-Xmas time in the richest country of the world looks much like any pre-90´s socialist country:

This only happens if you refuse to join the EU which used to have the "Butter mountain" and the "Milk sea". In the 80´s there was "X-Mas butter" - heavily reduced in price. Norwegians seem desperate enough (at least this is what media coverage purports) to choke up (up to) 350 EUR per kg dairy fat in such times of need.
I´m with you and temporarily emphatically on a High-Carb, High-Fat diet

Reinhard

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Somehow this looks to me as if there might be a misunderstanding
If there´d have been a shortage of sugar I´d be with your theory...

For those that have missed that fat problem up North - seemingly pre-Xmas time in the richest country of the world looks much like any pre-90´s socialist country:

This only happens if you refuse to join the EU which used to have the "Butter mountain" and the "Milk sea". In the 80´s there was "X-Mas butter" - heavily reduced in price. Norwegians seem desperate enough (at least this is what media coverage purports) to choke up (up to) 350 EUR per kg dairy fat in such times of need.
I´m with you and temporarily emphatically on a High-Carb, High-Fat diet

Reinhard

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Well.. high fat, low carb, so really no sugar in your food, we have plenty of sugar, so unless moonshining gets more popular we should be good.

There are people who have put out ads with silly prices for fun, but none are sold at that, though some have sold their butter for as much as 50 euros.
Now we have imported butter in the stores, so the crisis is over for now.
Norway as no toll on plant fat, but there is on dairy fat, so that's where the problem started.
Our daries had not produced enough, and import was a custom nightmare.

Looking at the way EU is doing at the moment I'm glad we're not a part of it, if we were we sure would not have our oil savings.
Is any EU country apart from Germany actually making money?

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Is any EU country apart from Germany actually making money?

Last I heard we will increase our debts next year by some 50 billion EUR - as is every year. Admitted this is not much compared to others but essentially it is also only needed to pay interest for the debts that are already there. So no. I don´t think that this country is making money but rather throws out as much as possible as quickly as possible.

As far as I see it currently Switzerland is making sure that everything stays afloat in Euro "country". Without their constant interventions and pledge to finance an exchange rate of 1.2 CHF = 1 EUR the EUR would probably be 3 NOK by now...

But we have butter. Plenty
And cookies.

Reinhard

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But we have butter. Plenty
And cookies.


Reinhard

you got us

But must admit I have not seen anything to this so called crisis , think media is getting low on interesting tings to write about

Regards
Terje

I installed an "upgrade" too

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I thlnk I' ve read about production dates vs. lockheating probably one of your or Revtor's post before and if I remember correctly still all cars have the system but they are deactivated on the GM.)

If this is the case, I wonder how one could reactivate the lock heaters and if this is possible, how do you turn them on?.

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I wonder how one could reactivate the lock heaters and if this is possible, how do you turn them on?.

If you have a 1995 or later E31 the door handles do not have the lock cylinder heating coil installed. However, if you order new door handles from BMW they come with the heating coils installed (it's probably cheaper for BMW to maintain a single part for all years of production). If you decide to get new door handles and connect the heating coils (all wiring is present) still nothing will happen because door lock heating is also disabled in the coding for 1995 and later E31. You will need a BMW diagnostic system with BMW NCS Expert to re-enable the door lock heating. Change function "TUERSCHLOSSHEIZUNG" from "nicht_aktiv" to "aktiv" in the GMII module's coding. Once done, you can activate the door lock heating by lifting the door handle for at least 5 seconds. Note that the door lock heating only works when the door has been locked for at least 35 seconds, and it can only be activated 3 times every 16 minutes.

PS: I would strongly advice against inserting your key with transponder in the door lock when the heating coil is activated.

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PS: I would strongly advice against inserting your key with transponder in the door lock when the heating coil is activated.

Strong magnetic field ( the coil ) causing the transponder to be erased , may be ?

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Strong magnetic field ( the coil ) causing the transponder to be erased , may be ?

Rather fried .

The transponder in the key gets its power not from the battery in the key (that's just for the remote control) but wirelessly from the ring antenna around the ignition lock cylinder. The door lock heating is basically a coil around the door lock cylinder and in that way very similar to the ring antenna. The main difference is that the ring antenna is designed for low power and data transmission while the heating coil is a brute beast designed to melt ice as fast as possible. When the door lock heating is active with the key inserted, the high-current pulse-width modulated signal from the heating coil will pump a huge amount of power into the key's transponder. The fact that BMW disabled door lock heating together with the introduction of the transponder keys strongly suggests that the transponders can't take that amount of power...