DIY - E36 window switch retrofit

[Justin B]

It's a cool upgrade if your old POS "pushy" e30 switches barely work or not at all, and stick. Looks way better too.

[BDSax]

It's a cool upgrade if your old POS "pushy" e30 switches barely work or not at all, and stick. Looks way better too.

EXACTLY! these switches dont only look better, they preform ALOT better. the windows also dont slow down when you are operating more than one. its just a much better design then the POS push switches. its definitely a good mod and worth the money.

[franco90]

Some Noobies Are Just Hating .....

[Erick]

Can you rehost the pictures for this? :p

[franco90]

Can you rehost the pictures for this? :p

look at the first couple of pages...

[teh Phil]

Does anybody have a lighted E36 switch/harness laying around? I bought two a while back, but one was broken.....now my window switches don't match. :rofl:

[bwanac]

Do we have year and model database of what cars had the large white and blue switches?

[scobaru]

I haven't really gone though all 14 pages but has anyone done a power sun roof retrofit?

[aaron325ix]

So I am about to start this mod on my 89 iX. I have large white base switches and if i under stand correctly the pins are numbered like this,:
123
456

or in my case 1=bl, 3=br, 4=gr, 5=red as shown below

and as you can see on the lower pic as the pins look like from above correspond as:

45
13

Now, should the key that was made a few pages back that Franco made work the same for mine even tho it was a blue base? Or better yet does anyone have a pic of the white base switches wired in? Thanks in advance.
AW

[franco90]

AARON look here

http://www.strictlyeta.net/technical/e36switches.html

I hope this helps

[aaron325ix]

Yea I've seen that before. But I just tested them and here's what worked for me.: The e30 wire colors are...
1 - Purple
3 - Both Browns
4 - Black
5 - Green
(the numbers are the pins& wire colors are e30) which someone posted way back

My only issues now are to figure out which wires for the rear windows do what as they are different colors. Franco, is the above what you did? Also, do you know the wires for the rears? How exactly did you plug your e30 wires into the switch base? Thanks again.
AW

[franco90]

my wire right up all the wires were the same color I think
but this is the way i wire them to the base I used the following item below

here are the part number that you need

to make custom wires for blue switches

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103252&cp

I hope this helps some one

[aaron325ix]

youre saying the wires for the rear switches (on the console) are the same colors as the front switches?

[franco90]

I think mine were the same i am 90% sure .

[aaron325ix]

wow, my rears have different bases, different color wires etc. Why cant anything be simple?