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Bmw has a long history of having it both ways.  They will no longer sell fobs to anyone that is not a dealer, so indy parts house cannot offer them.  Bmw has always tried to force customers to dealers, then when a warranty question such as battery coverage on an i3, they say the dealer is independent business and they cannot interfere.  Been dealing with this 35 years, pretty close to done.  The way it works is that each i3 has ten available fob addresses. New fobs can use up an address, once used, no longer available for reprogramming.  Typical used car dealer will take second fob, and seill on ebay, for a few Xtra bucks profit.  Ebay fobs will not work on another car, nor will generic fobs.  If u buy used i3 with one fob, negotiate 1k lower price. German car companies also do this with service software . Typical cost to indy might be 40k for full suite of diagnostics.  Then they make minor changes every year forcing new purchase.  I know indy Audi garage involved in law suit against VoA/ Audi regarding service info availability.  Audi lost case, they actually faxed 3000 pages s of info, of course low quality copy and made indy pay for the paper, sore losers. They make it very hard.  Germany has very different consumer protection laws.