2015 BMW X3
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I got a call from a guy parked at one of the shops off Palomar Airport Road in Bressi Ranch. His 2015 X3 would crank, almost catch, and then shut down immediately. He said another locksmith had done a key replacement about a week earlier and everything seemed fine at first.
He drove it home that night, parked it, came back the next morning and it did the same crank-and-die. The locksmith told him the engine computer was going bad.
I asked one question before I even drove over: did the locksmith use a proper BMW-capable tool and confirm the sync between the immobilizer module and the engine computer. He had no idea what I was talking about, which told me everything.
On site, I connected my equipment through the OBD port and pulled the data. The immobilizer module had the key registered in its memory, but the internal synchronization number between that module and the DME was mismatched. BMW's security architecture requires both sides to agree on that value. If they do not match, the engine management system cuts off after the initial start attempt. The car was not broken. The previous programming job was just incomplete.
I re-read the immobilizer data, corrected the sync, and verified the key registration. First start after that was clean. No crank-and-die, no warning lights, nothing dramatic.
He was relieved, then annoyed, then relieved again. He had already been quoted a significant number by a dealer who assumed the engine computer needed replacement. It did not. He paid a fraction of what they wanted, and the whole thing was done in his parking spot.
The ISN sync step is not optional on this system. It is the job.
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