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Old Jun 10, 2018 | 09:11 PM
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Looking to get A/C working on a car powered by an e38 PCM. Ive read that I "need the same BCM from the donor car". Does that mean that I need the EXACT bcm from the donor car, VIN and all, or that I just need the BCM from the same type of car? The donor car to my ls7 is long gone. I was thinking of finding a C6 BCM on ebay and using that. Any idea if that will work or am I SOL on this?
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The VIN in the BCM will most likely need to match VIN in ECM for everything to work correctly.
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Is it as simple as changing the VIN in the PCM to the vin from the bcm in that case? anyone know?
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Not sure but Ive swapped BCMs around and havent run into mismatch issues
but YMMV
when I had an issue with the BCM not matching the radio and XM module I sent the BCM off and had the VIN changed in it.
IIRC it was $50 plus shipping
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