DIY - E36 window switch retrofit

[franco90]

so how do u like the new switches

[aaron325ix]

the front two wire in fine. Just waiting for someone to sell me two more for the rear. Then I can finally get my fucking new console in there.

[franco90]

any updates

[aaron325ix]

nope, not mine anyway. I have black bases in the front with the wires mentioned earlier, and the rear switches have white bases, with different colored wires. Even the pins are in different locations on the rears, which makes me wonder about doing them. I can give you pics if you like.

[franco90]

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

no way all the switches are the same on an IX even the bases

[franco90]

AARON I will look at mine and post pictures of the front and back set ups

[aaron325ix]

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

[franco90]

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

[aaron325ix]

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

[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]

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]

AARON look here

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

I hope this helps

[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

[scobaru]

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

[bwanac]

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