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Originally Posted by al3xander
Any dealership quoting 3 hours of ahoptime for programming is gouging you.
The tech only has to set the car up for programming which will take 10-15 minutes tops and start the session then periodically check it to make sure nothing happened like a Module crashed or the session timed out but it's not like they have to babysit the car during the entire programming process.
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What the tech has to do is, in some markets, moot, since per-sq-ft costs are rather high in some metro areas, and bay occupancy, not tech-cycles, are what's actually billed for.
...that said, if there's an observable trend with dealerships quoting folks lower than before, then perhaps that puts wind in the sails of speculation that BMW has given 'latest firmware on ECUs' a higher priority than before, possibly via subsidy etc.
We could be entering a new era where routine maintenance visits more often than not involve updates without request, and possibly even involve mandated updates irrespective of what customers' wishes are... and if we did enter a world that looked this way, it'd tip the scales on the piggyback-vs-bench-flash axis... </speculation>