Spend a few hours on this today - I will attempt to provide what I found - it's not good news for me BTW. Keep in mind folks that I am not trying to disable the warning (I get no warning) I am only trying to disable to cold-check function for the Parking and License Plate.
you need LCM 4 to do this trick, and you have LCM 3, get it from e53 x5.
NavCoder will not do this on the E39. I believe rOOkie is correct, you need the later LCM.
I believe these are true statements - I am running LCM 3 (lcm-C18) and there is not an option to disable the cold-check for the License Plate lamps (KALTUEBERWACHUNG_KZL), But, oddly enough, the GT module DOES have the option embedded BUT NCS spits out a "incorrect coder index" error when pulling the trace. Also - I do not see the option in NAVCODER to disable Parking Lamp OR License Plate Lamps so I am assuming that this would not work either since it too will be coding the same LCM. Looks like I'll be searching for a new LCM.
I have changed on mine (LCM-C18)
FEHLER_KENNZ_LICHT
melden -> nicht_melden
(don't report licence plate light failure)
For Sidelights I would change the following:
FEHLER_STANDLICHT
nicht_melden
STANDLICHT_PRUEF
nicht_aktiv
Tried all of these (at the same time and individually) and no workie. . .it will only disable to WARNING announcement
Does disabling the licence plate check stop the parking lights from being cold monitored?. . .
Based on my experience today - the answer to this is a resounding NO!
There is an option to disable the Parking Lamps completely - but that seems a little stupid
I COULD wire the AE's as DRLs via Timmay's instructions (which I think I will do) and disable the Parking Lamp Check warning (FEHLER_STANDLICHT and STANDLICHT_PRUEF) but I would still have the License Plate blinkage. . .
If anyone has additional insight please do share!
:byebye: