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Chris Rogers

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  1. Another thing to keep in mind would be the steering wheel controls as some of the button functions may not match or not have the same order as the Japanese set up. Just a thought.

    yes and no. SWC is the same it seems. I use USDM controls for the cruise kits I make. no issue there. now if we are talking center controls - yes those are mapped differently. I got caught on it and learned a $700 mistake the hard way.

  2. ^^ hit the nail on the head.

    People want this done for nix and expect it to work first go, be able to blame someone if it does not.

    TO THOSE CONTACTING ME FOR ENGLISH CONVERSIONS:

    I HAVE NO DONE THEM SINCE 2009. NO I CANNOT TELL YOU WHERE TO GET IT DONE.

    hopefully this is clear enough to most of the newbies that feel the need to join, PM me , and disappear.

    Parts , yes I can get them. Will I sell them at cost . No.

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  3. Seems all your pics have disappeared.

    Dropped in to see what has happened over the last 3 months. Much progress ?

    Still hot all the pics on mine ??

    Facebook must have reloaded them. I have all of them off line anyway.

    I have it at my shop now and fiddle with it when I get time. Not a lot done over the last 6 months. Been buying bits though.

  4. Okay, I need to clarify something.

    I am not in this business. I was sick and tired about all the BS about OEM swaps and decided to research this topic and found people in Europe who are capable of delivering what I need. They have a track record doing the same things with USDM and JDM models for much wider range of cars, not only V36, I'm still interested in this topic just because the same swap can be done on Series 3 E51 Elgrand which I have atm.

    Given the guys will come from overseas to do the work, you either need to trust them or not; any warranty will be useless here once they fly back. However, I'd imagine nobody would make hundreds of cars somewhere else and then travel for 21+ hours just to rip off poor V36 owners in Oz for $500 a car given the cost of replacement equipment circa $2k

    Now you see why I stopped.

  5. Yep fedor karmanov and his people. Fully aware of him.

    Point I'm making is when you present an idea someone else sees a cheap way of doing it with disastrous results.

    Worse when they start hacking on harnesses and render the car useless. I'm told this is the case with this one.

    Problem being is this. We both know the car is unique to japan and nothing else direct swaps into it without modifying hardware or software.

    Doing hardware as we know is expensive. Doing software on it requires a custom solution that few want to pay for (and the reason I quit doing it) .

    E51/E52 el grand are similar platforms to these cars but few are going to play with those. Those vans are in English in Singapore and for what it's worth I have the service manuals for both.

    Now in saying that I can almost bet someone tries to swap the main controller in one and destroys something.

    IIRC these problems have been happening since v36 landed here.

    Many smart chaps bought random US gear from eBay and tried to replace the units and failed.

    Adding more story to the list does not change anything and this story has nothing to do with what we're discussing here.

    Hundreds if not thousands cars have been converted in Russia in the past few years, now we will have the same tech but with Australian-specific firmware.

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