Quick guide to CIP programming for BMW F Series

vehicles
About F Series CIP programming
The purpose of Coding, Individualisation and Programming (CIP) BMW F Series
vehicles is to update the software on one or more of the control units or to assign a
new control unit to the vehicle.

N NOTE: This procedure is only available for Autologics with Ethernet

capability (serial number 5693 and above).

The main steps in this procedure are as follows:

1. Connect Autologic to the vehicle so that Autologic can communicate with

all of the control units fitted to the vehicle and identify which of them have
a software level that is out-of-date. Autologic creates a report for this
called a Measures Plan.

2. Send the Measures Plan, as an order, to Autologic Diagnostics by using

the Autolink software. You will receive a programming update for the
vehicle’s control units.

3. Download the programming update for the control units from the
autologic.com website and save it to a USB stick.

4. Connect Autologic to the vehicle and plug a USB stick into the Autologic.

5. Program the control units on the vehicle with the programming update.

How to CIP program an F Series vehicle

Follow the steps below to CIP program an F Series vehicle:

1. Connect the BMW Ethernet-OBD-II cable from Autologic to the vehicle’s

OBD socket.

N NOTE: If you do not use the correct cable, Autologic tells you that it cannot
communicate because your Ethernet cable is not connected. If you have
connected the correct cable and you still get a message, you need to
download an update to your Autologic called LANSETUP11 from the
General section in the User Area of the autologic.com website.

2. Turn on your Autologic, press [START DIAGNOSTICS] and then select the
F Series model of vehicle you want to program.

3. Press [CIP] in the F Series model screen and then press the [Continue]
button.

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 Autologic communicates with the vehicle, determines the software updates
that are necessary for the vehicle and displays a Vehicle Status Report
screen (see example below).

N NOTE: The Vehicle Status Report tells you which control units need
updating.

4. Press [QUIT] in the Vehicle Status Report screen. The CIP MENU screen
appears.

5. Select the Create measures plan (coding and programming) option in

the CIP MENU screen.

Autologic displays the Measures Plan (see example below). This is a list of
the jobs with estimated times that can or need to be done on the vehicle
for each control unit. Autologic automatically adds and determines the list

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 of jobs (recommended actions) in the Measures Plan because it can
detect when a control unit has been replaced or if it is faulty.

6. Press [QUIT] in the Measures Plan report screen.

The MEASURES PLAN MENU screen appears where you can view or
implement the Measures Plan.

N NOTE: If you are programming as part of the Measures Plan, you need to
follow steps 7 thru’ 15 below to order the programming files. Otherwise, you
press the [START] button next to the Start Measures Plan option in the
MEASURES PLAN MENU screen.

7. Connect to Autolink, go to the Orders section and tick the chassis number
of the vehicle you are working on (see example below).

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 8. Press the [Send Orders] button in the Autolink Orders screen.

A message tells you that your order has been sent successfully. Within ten
minutes, the programming file you ordered will be available in the My Files
section in the User Area of the autologic.com website (see example
below).

N NOTE: The programming filename has the chassis number of the vehicle.

9. Insert a USB stick in your PC.

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 10. Download and run the programming update you ordered. To do this, click
on the Link to the chassis number in the My Files section of the User
Area.

11. The Autologic F Series Programming Update screen appears.

12. Click the [Select Removable Disk] dropdown bar to select your USB
device and then press the [Create USB Stick] button.

13. Remove the USB stick from your PC.

14. From the Autologic start-up screen, press [SYSTEM SETUP] and then
insert the USB stick into the USB port of the Autologic.

N NOTE: For Autologics with serial numbers including and between 5693 to
7999 you need to press [SYSTEM SETUP] on the start-up screen and then
plug in the USB stick in the Autologic. Autologic displays a hardware setup
wizard, so press the [Next] button repeatedly until you press the [Finish]
button. For serial numbers between 5693 to 7999, you also need to install
an update called Mass_storage.exe on your Autologic before the USB
hardware setup will work.

15. To implement the Measures Plan for the vehicle, return to the MEASURES
PLAN MENU screen and press the [START] button next to the Start
Measures Plan option.

Now that Autologic has the programming updates it needs, programming

starts.

Autologic generates a final report to show you that it has successfully done
all of the jobs in the Measures Plan.

Changing the Measures Plan

C CAUTION! We recommend that you do not change the Measures Plan

that Autologic automatically generates.

You can follow the steps below to review and change the Measures Plan
and the list of jobs on the vehicle that you want Autologic to update.

1. Display the MEASURES PLAN MENU screen.

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 2. Press the [CHANGE] button next the Change Measures Plan option.

The CHANGE MEASURES PLAN screen appears (see example below).

3. Press [DESELECT ALL] on the CHANGE MEASURES PLAN screen.

All of the items in the Measures Plan now say “not selected”.

4. Either press the [Update] button next to name of the control unit you want
Autologic to Flash program in the Measures Plan, or press the [Code]
button next to any of the control units that you want Autologic to code.

N NOTE: If a control unit already has the latest software level, press the
[Reprogram] button to put the same level of software back into the control
unit.

5. When you have finished customising the Measures Plan, press [BACK]
and then save your changes.

Autologic displays the MEASURES PLAN MENU screen again so you can
now start your customised Measures Plan.

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