Hello - Marrying Instrument Cluster to ECU

[Kam187]

Hi everyone, new to the forum.

I have a BMW S1000rr Gen 3 Race bike.

Recently suffered a crash and bike would not start which after hours of diagnosis turns out to be the instrument cluster has failed.

I've borrowed a friends spare and the bike works no problem but after a code scan it is showing as not paired with the ECU.

I have a GS-911 with the VIN activated but wanted to know if it has the capability of marrying the Instrument cluster to the ECU. If yes, how do you do it?

Whilst everything is working fine, the cluster is showing an engine management light which after scanning can only be down to the mismatch as no other obvious faults. 

[WayneC]

I am not familiar with your model so may not be right but on the models I am familiar with the dash acts as a backup for the ODO value in the Engine Management ECU so if the 2 do not match it will show the engine management light, the Dealer diags system has a routine to resync the ODO values between the 2 ECU's, I have not seen any mention of the capability in GS911 & as you would be aware ODO tampering is a sensitive issue with Govt's so a resync capability may be considered a problematic feature

On other BMW vehicles ECU's can also have VIN programmed into them to prevent ECU swaps between vehicles, there are some utilities out of China to "virginize"  ECU's, not all work well I hear