The BMW F30, a truly iconic vehicle, offers more than meets the eye. Did you know you can unlock a plethora of hidden features and personalize your driving experience through coding? If you’re eager to discover the possibilities and explore the Carly Bmw F30 Coding List, you’ve landed in the right spot.
This comprehensive guide delves into the exciting world of BMW F30 coding, detailing numerous options to customize your ride. This list is applicable to the BMW F30, F31 (Touring), F34 (Gran Turismo), F35 (Long Wheelbase Sedan), and the high-performance BMW M3 F80 models. Get ready to transform your driving experience!
Here’s a broad overview of the coding categories available for your BMW F30:
- Active Sound Design: Enhance or modify the engine sound experience.
- Air Conditioning: Customize climate control settings for optimal comfort.
- Alarm System: Fine-tune alarm behavior and alerts.
- Ambient Lighting: Adjust brightness and colors to create your desired interior atmosphere.
- Angel Eyes: Modify the appearance and behavior of your iconic BMW headlights.
- Audio: Tweak audio settings for a superior sound experience.
- Brake Lights: Customize brake light patterns and behavior for enhanced safety and style.
- Cleaning (windows/lights): Adjust wiper and headlight cleaning system settings.
- Clock/Date: Modify display settings for time and date.
- Comfort Functions: Personalize features like comfort access and remote control functions.
- Coming Home/Leaving Home Lights: Customize exterior lighting duration when entering or exiting your vehicle.
- Daytime Running Lights (DRL): Modify DRL intensity, style, and activation.
- Door Lights: Customize lighting in the doors for added visibility and aesthetics.
- Drive Assistant: Adjust settings for driver assistance systems like lane departure warning.
- Driving Dynamics Control: Fine-tune driving mode settings (Sport, Comfort, Eco Pro).
- Easy Entry: Customize seat and steering wheel adjustments for easier entry and exit.
- Engine Start-Stop: Modify or disable the automatic start-stop system.
- Gear Shift Indicator: Adjust the display and behavior of the gear shift indicator.
- Headlight Cleaning: Customize headlight washer operation.
- Head-Up Display (HUD): Personalize information displayed on the HUD and its appearance.
- High Beam Assistant: Adjust automatic high beam settings for optimal night driving.
- iDrive Logo: Customize the startup logo displayed on your iDrive screen.
- iDrive Menus: Rearrange and customize iDrive menu options for easier navigation.
- Instrument Cluster: Modify the appearance and information displayed in your instrument cluster.
- Interior Lights: Adjust brightness and behavior of interior lighting.
- Legal Disclaimer: Remove or modify legal disclaimers displayed on the iDrive screen.
- Locking (door/trunk): Customize locking and unlocking behavior, including sounds and signals.
- Mirrors: Adjust mirror folding, tilting, and heating settings.
- Navigation: Enhance navigation system features and display options.
- Opening the car: Customize functions activated when unlocking the vehicle.
- Park Distance Control (PDC): Adjust PDC volume, display, and activation settings.
- Parking Light: Customize parking light behavior and activation.
- Power Windows: Modify power window operation, including comfort closing and opening.
- Rain Light Sensor: Adjust sensitivity and behavior of rain and light sensors.
- Seat Heating: Customize seat heating levels and timer settings.
- Side Marker Lights: Modify side marker light behavior and appearance.
- Side View Cameras: Adjust side view camera display and settings.
- Speedometer: Calibrate and customize speedometer display, including digital speedometer option.
- Spoiler: (If equipped) Adjust spoiler deployment settings.
- Sport Display: Customize the information displayed in the sport display.
- Tailgate/Rear Lid: Customize automatic tailgate operation, including remote and footwell switch control.
- Tank (fuel): Adjust fuel tank warnings and reserve levels.
- Telephone: Enhance Bluetooth and telephone integration features.
- Tires: Adjust tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) settings.
- Turn Signals: Customize turn signal behavior, including comfort turn signals and visual confirmations.
- Video in Motion (VIM): Enable video playback while driving for passenger entertainment.
- Voltage Monitoring: Adjust voltage monitoring system parameters.
- Warnings: Customize warning sounds and visual alerts.
- Welcome Light: Personalize welcome light sequences and brightness.
All these incredible coding options can be easily and safely implemented using the Carly app and the Carly Universal Adapter. Let’s dive deeper into some popular and impactful coding examples!
Enhancing Your Parking Experience with Rear View Camera Coding
Navigating tight parking spaces becomes significantly easier with a rear view camera. Fortunately, your BMW F30 offers coding options to personalize and optimize this feature even further.
To understand the coding process, it’s helpful to know a few key terms. REM, or Road Experience Management, is a crucial module responsible for the rear view camera and various rear lights. It plays an increasingly vital role in modern vehicles, contributing to autonomous driving by processing environmental data to enhance navigation and safety. The REM module is located in the right side of your trunk.
Within the REM module, you can customize when the rear view camera activates and deactivates. For example, you can adjust the distance the camera stays on after shifting into drive, or set specific speed thresholds for camera activation and deactivation.
Another important term is CIC, the Car Information Computer. This system manages navigation data and serves as the successor to the CCC (Car Communication Computer). To access hidden menus within your CIC, navigate to the main menu and press the iDrive controller (the round wheel to the right of your gear lever) forward for approximately 10 seconds. Then, rotate the controller three times right, three times left, once right, once left, and finally once right again. Accessing the “Settings” menu will reveal newly available options, potentially including customizing the rear view camera display to horizontal or vertical views.
Finally, PDC, or Park Distance Control, refers to the parking assist system and its sensors located at the rear of your vehicle. Coding allows you to adjust the volume of the PDC warning sounds to your preferred level directly through your car’s computer, ensuring the alerts are noticeable but not intrusive.
Unlock enhanced parking assistance by coding your BMW F30 rear view camera settings using Carly.
Personalize Your Interior Ambiance with Ambient Lighting Control
BMW’s ambient lighting system adds a touch of sophistication and style to your interior. However, you might find the default brightness lacking. Did you know you can code your BMW F30 to independently control the ambient lighting brightness?
For BMW enthusiasts, ambient lighting is a desirable feature. The issue often arises when the lighting appears too dim because it’s automatically linked to the instrument cluster brightness. Fortunately, Carly provides a simple solution. By accessing the Front Electronic Module (FEM), a central control unit managing various vehicle functions, you can activate the “own brightness” function. Once enabled, you gain independent control to adjust the ambient lighting to your preferred intensity, creating a more personalized and visually appealing cabin environment.
Enhance Your Navigation System with Coded Features
Your BMW F30 navigation system is already sophisticated, but coding can unlock even more features to streamline your journeys and enhance convenience.
Route previews are a valuable addition. Standard navigation often lacks a route overview before you start driving. This can be frustrating, especially when encountering unexpected traffic congestion. By coding the route preview option, your F30 can display a comprehensive route overview, allowing you to anticipate potential delays and make informed decisions before you even begin your trip. This coding adjustment is easily performed via your car’s computer, eliminating the need for expensive dealership visits and empowering you to customize your navigation experience.
Another incredibly useful feature is enabling fuel stop suggestions. By activating this option in your navigation settings, your system will proactively display nearby gas stations along your route. This prevents the anxiety of running low on fuel in unfamiliar areas, ensuring a smoother and more confident driving experience.
Updating your navigation maps can sometimes be inconvenient. Typically, during map updates, the navigation system becomes temporarily unusable. However, coding the “Navigation on update” feature in your CIC module allows you to bypass this limitation. With this code activated, your navigation system remains fully functional even while map updates are downloading in the background.
Route info menu items offer enhanced directional awareness. By coding this feature, you can access a detailed step-by-step breakdown of your programmed route directly on the iDrive screen. This eliminates any guesswork and ensures you stay on course, especially in complex intersections or unfamiliar cityscapes.
Finally, the “Route Magnet” function provides greater control over route selection. This often-overlooked feature lets you pre-define preferred routes based on your personal preferences. For example, when traveling between cities, you can specify whether you prefer routes passing through certain landmarks or cities, giving you more personalized control over your navigation experience.
These simple yet effective navigation coding options elevate your BMW F30’s navigation system, making every journey more convenient and tailored to your needs.
Take Control of Your Engine Start-Stop System
The automatic Start-Stop system, while designed for fuel efficiency, isn’t always desirable in every driving situation. Many BMW drivers find it intrusive and potentially detrimental to engine longevity in certain conditions. While you can manually disable it each time you start your car, coding offers more permanent and customizable solutions.
You can permanently disable the automatic Start-Stop function on your BMW F30 through coding. By accessing the FEM module, which manages various interconnected systems, you can deactivate the Start-Stop system’s default activation.
For environmentally conscious drivers who prefer Eco or Eco Pro mode, coding offers the “automatic start in Eco/Eco Pro mode” feature. This allows you to set your BMW F30 to automatically start in Eco Pro mode each time you start the engine. While starting in Sport or Sport+ mode via coding isn’t possible, this Eco Pro start feature caters to those prioritizing fuel efficiency.
If you prefer a more nuanced approach than a complete deactivation, the “Start-Stop Memory” function provides a practical middle ground. This feature remembers the Start-Stop system’s last state before you switched off the engine. If you disabled Start-Stop on your previous drive, it will remain disabled when you restart your car. This gives you convenient temporary control without needing to recode every time you want to adjust the system’s behavior.
Customize your BMW F30’s Start-Stop system behavior to your driving preferences with Carly coding.
Enhance Safety with Lane Departure Warning Customization
Maintaining focus on the road is paramount for safe driving. BMW’s Lane Departure Warning system, or Lane Assistant, adds an extra layer of safety, and coding allows you to refine its functionality.
Curb and grass detection can significantly reduce the risk of wheel damage. Fear of curb rash becomes a thing of the past with these coded features. Adding curb detection and grass detection to your BMW F30 provides visual and potentially audible alerts when approaching curbs or driving onto grass verges. These features can be activated individually or together, providing enhanced spatial awareness and protecting your rims from accidental damage. For drivers who prefer a more minimalist approach, these features can also be completely deactivated.
Improve Speedometer Accuracy with Digital Speedometer and Correction Options
Analog speedometers can sometimes be less precise and require more visual focus. Switching to a digital speedometer display offers a more accurate and easily readable alternative. Coding allows you to display a digital speedometer directly below the analog speedometer in your instrument cluster, providing a clear and instantaneous speed reading.
Furthermore, you can disable “speed correction.” Factory speedometers are often intentionally calibrated to display a slightly higher speed than the actual speed. This “upward correction,” typically a few km/h, is a safety margin built into most vehicles. Disabling speed correction provides a more precise speed reading, reflecting your true speed. However, be mindful that with speed correction disabled, you are driving at the exact speed displayed, increasing the risk of exceeding speed limits if you are not careful.
Maximize Convenience with Mirror Folding and Tilting Options
Protecting your rearview mirrors in tight parking situations is a common concern for car owners. BMW F30 coding provides solutions to automatically fold mirrors and enhance visibility while parking.
If your BMW F30 is equipped with an integrated LIN bus (often indicated by the presence of outside mirror heating), you can code your mirrors to fold in and out using your key fob. By holding the lock button for a slightly longer duration, the mirrors will fold inwards, protecting them in narrow spaces. You can configure the mirrors to automatically unfold upon unlocking the car or remain folded until you initiate unfolding. This coding typically involves modifying the CAS module (Car Access System or immobilizer).
For shorter drivers, coded mirror tilting in reverse offers improved visibility of the curb and rear tires when parking. By activating mirror tilt functions 1 and 2 in the control system, the mirrors will automatically tilt downwards when reverse gear is engaged. You can also adjust the tilt intensity to weak, medium, or strong to customize the degree of downward tilt.
For automatic mirror unfolding, you can also code a speed threshold. If you choose not to have the mirrors automatically unfold upon unlocking, you can set a speed (between 1 km/h and 40 km/h) at which they will automatically unfold once you start driving. Similarly, you can set a maximum speed (between 10 km/h and 60 km/h) at which the mirrors will automatically fold inwards.
Personalize Turn Signal Behavior for Enhanced Style and Safety
Turn signals, though fundamental, can be customized to add a touch of personalization and enhance visibility.
You can customize visual confirmation signals when locking and unlocking your BMW F30. If you’ve enabled visual signals upon locking/unlocking, coding allows you to adjust the duration for which the turn signals illuminate, creating a personalized greeting and farewell.
For added security, you can activate turn signal flashing during an alarm event. Coding enables your turn signals to flash in conjunction with the alarm system, drawing more attention to a potential break-in.
The one-touch turn signal feature, often called “comfort turn signals,” can also be customized. You can modify the number of flashes activated by a single tap of the turn signal lever. The default is typically three flashes, but you can adjust it to 1, 5, or 7 flashes, catering to your lane change preferences.
These turn signal coding options offer subtle yet noticeable enhancements to your BMW F30’s lighting behavior, adding both style and functionality.
Optimize Tailgate/Rear Lid Operation for Convenience
Automatic tailgate operation is a premium feature that enhances convenience, especially when your hands are full. BMW F30 coding unlocks further customization of this feature.
With Comfort Access, you can code your tailgate to open remotely using your key fob. You can also enable a visual signal (turn signal flash) to confirm tailgate operation. For added convenience when approaching your vehicle with items to load, you can code a delayed tailgate opening. This allows you to trigger the tailgate to open remotely as you approach, minimizing waiting time before you can load items into the trunk.
Tailgate closing via the key fob can also be coded. You may need to deactivate the “Panic Alarm Remote Control” in the CAS module to enable this function. Activating “Close tailgate with keyfob” addition allows you to close the tailgate remotely using the key fob. Additionally, if your BMW F30 has the necessary hardware (an electronic tailgate button), you can code the footwell switch to close the tailgate from the driver’s seat. This is particularly useful if a passenger forgets to close the tailgate.
Note: Tailgate/rear lid coding options related to automatic closing and footwell switch operation are only applicable if your BMW F30 is equipped with the hardware for an automatically closing tailgate (HKL module).
Unlock the Full Potential of Your Head-Up Display (HUD)
The Head-Up Display (HUD) projects essential driving information directly into your line of sight, enhancing safety and convenience. BMW F30 coding offers extensive customization options to tailor the HUD to your preferences.
You can integrate cruise control information into the HUD, displaying set speed and cruise control status directly in your field of vision. Similarly, turn signal indicators and warnings can be projected onto the HUD (for models up to 2013; may require re-enabling “indicators in Head-Up Display” option in KOMBI/CIC).
Beyond driving-related information, you can customize the HUD’s display content to include entertainment and communication features. Radio stations, music lists, and frequently used call lists can be displayed on the HUD, minimizing distractions and keeping essential information readily accessible. Even your contact list can be integrated into the HUD menu options.
For drivers who frequently use voice commands, coding allows confirmation prompts for voice commands to be displayed on the HUD. Furthermore, voice recognition can be enhanced to display highway exit information on the HUD, facilitating route adjustments and providing real-time navigation updates directly in your line of sight.
Personalize your BMW F30’s Head-Up Display to show the information you need, exactly where you need it, with Carly.
Enable Video in Motion for Passenger Entertainment
While driver focus should always remain on the road, passengers can enjoy entertainment during journeys. Video in Motion (VIM) coding unlocks the ability to play videos on your iDrive screen while driving.
By default, video playback is typically restricted to when the vehicle is stationary (“Video only with handbrake”). VIM coding bypasses this restriction, allowing video playback while the car is in motion. However, it’s crucial to emphasize that driver distraction should be avoided, and this feature is intended for passenger entertainment only. You can also code the system to play videos only when parked, if preferred.
BMW F30 coding also provides flexibility in video source selection. You can choose to play videos from a USB stick or an iOS device. Unfortunately, Android device playback is not directly supported, requiring the use of a USB drive for Android video content. iPhone video playback requires connecting your phone via a snap-in adapter rather than a standard USB cable.
For a more integrated media experience, you can customize the iDrive menu to replace the standard title menu with the menu of the inserted DVD. This provides a more user-friendly and visually appealing DVD interface directly within your iDrive system, mimicking a conventional DVD player menu.
Unlocking these coding options for your BMW F30 opens up a world of personalization and enhanced functionality. With the Carly app and adapter, coding becomes accessible and user-friendly, empowering you to tailor your BMW to your exact preferences. Explore the Carly BMW F30 coding list and discover the hidden potential of your vehicle today!
