Figured out 2002 Service Menu - The Unofficial BMW M5 Messageboard (m5board.com)

2002m5BGM · 6th November 2001, 17:09

Guys

I broke the code last night on my 2002 M5. Here is how I got the service menu up. I have a car that was built in week 40. 10-1-01.

Get in car close doors, turn key to Position 1 or 2, hit the accept on the Nav system and make sure the radio is off.

pull the key out and put it in Pos 2.

turn radio on and hit the "Select" key and hold it until the display changes or flashes and becomes the menu screen.

I then turned the right hand computer knob one position right or left and

You are in: You now see the service menu appear with the radio serial number.

Use the < > keys to scroll through the functions and the 1 and the 2 keys to make selections for each setting.

You see (not in this order):
Serial Number
Software Version
GAL (mine was set to 2, I changed it to 6)
FM station info
Man
DSP
TP volume
Country

Turning the radio off saves the changes. I also found all my preset radio stations were lost and had to be reprogrammed.

From old posts, I think there may be another service menu for the Nav system, if any one figures it out - please post the instructions.

Regards,

Bill K

HotRod · 8th November 2001, 06:27

What is GAL??

Also, what changes could you do from this menu, and why would you want to make them??

HotRod

ps:nice hacking!!

EBMCS03 · 8th November 2001, 07:06

Wow... how were u able to figure that out?? NICE job none the less!

m5monster · 8th November 2001, 11:58

What is Gal, Man, TP volume??

Can we see our RPM in instrument cluster display (NOT in Navigation Monitor)?? This will look cool to impress friends

. Can we also display it in Nav Monitor itself?

2002m5BGM · 8th November 2001, 15:26

The GAL is german for speed sensitive volume control. A higher number is more sensitive. The other things are more for information than anything else. I have not been able to see RPMs or anything else - I think there are other service menus, just not sure how to access them.

I figured this out from reading the previos posts on how to access this menu if you have the year 2001, 2000 and before, then I just followed the same procedure and tried a few different buttons.

Bill

Fernando · 8th November 2001, 15:35

It's possible to see this information in my car that doesn't have navy system can only view changing pressing the button in the panel (check button or the zero the odometer) If a keep pressing they appears a lot of number. Wich one I choose?

Ashok Arora · 8th November 2001, 19:24

Do you know if changing the 'Country' option will change the odometer from Kilometers to Miles?

Ashok

'02 Carbonblack/Caramel

tfung · 8th November 2001, 19:29

Quote:

Originally posted by Ashok Arora
Do you know if changing the 'Country' option will change the odometer from Kilometers to Miles?

Ashok

From what I saw, I think this is only the menu for the radio and sound system. Changing the country from US to Europe only changed frequencies I received. Didn't do any change to other stuff.... You can change some of the other options through the Nav "set" option... like from MPG to km/l... For the odemeter change, I think you might have to go to the odometer menus.. I wouldn't mess with that, but you can find the instructions at www.bmwtips.com

1C00lVC · 8th November 2001, 19:32

Arie