Mystery Button

[CarsonE30]

What are youuuuu

[long tall eta]

power window lock out.

[CarsonE30]

Ohhhhhh, I'm gonna make my friends hate me with that[emoji317]

[ELVA164]

Yeah, it's so silly because they used a different plastic for those breaker switches and the original image always fades:

[TobyB]

Ejector seat

t

[jprastrullo]

What are youuuuu

Nice car!

[CarsonE30]

Ejector seat

t

If only

[CarsonE30]

Nice car!

Dude it's incredible, pretty cool PO also!

[Garage30]

Years ago when I didn't know everything about e30's, I took a ticket at some german carpark at the airport. Only to have the window stuck down. I was late for my flight so I took my door apart asap to try and get it up. I failed and had to leave my car there for a week in the middle of german winter, with the window down. I stuck the doorcard in the window and left. When I got back I found out it was that stupid window circuit breaker. A 1 second fix lol. I always thought that thing did nothing, and never bothered to look it up.

[CarsonE30]

Years ago when I didn't know everything about e30's, I took a ticket at some german carpark at the airport. Only to have the window stuck down. I was late for my flight so I took my door apart asap to try and get it up. I failed and had to leave my car there for a week in the middle of german winter, with the window down. I stuck the doorcard in the window and left. When I got back I found out it was that stupid window circuit breaker. A 1 second fix lol. I always thought that thing did nothing, and never bothered to look it up.

Damnnnn, you have my sympathy I thought it might have been something for an alarm or the like because of the off color plastic, glad r3v knows all!

Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk

[Garage30]

Well surprisingly the car was not even that wet on the inside, nor was it messed with. Luckily Germany is a decent country.. So all good. Yeah I also thought it was no bmw button, I thought the p/o put it there

[jeffnhiscars]

One has to wonder how many people have torn their cars apart and teplaced who knows what trying to fix non op windows for this very reason.

[CarsonE30]

One has to wonder how many people have torn their cars apart and teplaced who knows what trying to fix non op windows for this very reason.

Oh god I never even thought about that!!!

[itsonlygeorge]

power window lock out.

It's actually a circuit breaker switch for the power windows. Rear window lockout is located on the center console and is a small square button.

It was the 80's, power windows were just becoming standard. Because they hadn't established power window safety yet, the circuit breaker was their solution to preventing injury - it will trip if the window motor starts pulling lots of current (e.g. when stalled by someone's head stuck in the window) or in any case where the button would become depressed for an extended period of time when already in the up or down position, to prevent premature failure of the window motors.

[long tall eta]

(e.g. when stalled by someone's head stuck in the window)