Help a stoopid newb and tell me what this button does...

[oscarsi]

hahaha, the good'ol window circuit breaker.
I've fallen prey to it before. (you push it, then realize later that your windows stopped working. then you press it and tell youself "WHAT A USELESS BUTTON!" hahaha

[diegom6]

maybe you should read the post(s) you were responding too...





He was talking about this (circled in green):

bingo

[dnguyen1963]

Ah...that one. Sorry my bad.

[lambo]

Read the post that I was responding to...

Maybe you should read the post(s) you were responding too...

Now that this is brought here, I wonder, what was/is the porpouse of that little "vent-grill" next to the temperature knob? I always wondered if there was a sensor behind it (when I was a kid) but never figured out for what was it.

The little guy on the bottom left that sits next to the temperature thingy?? Thats a speaker I think for when the radio alarm goes off. My dads IX has the "optimum" Radio or whatever the best is that BMW put in and while the car is off if you hit 'band' or take the radio out and a couple other things an annoying alarm goes off and I believe that is the speaker for it. I might be lying.

He was talking about this (circled in green):

[dnguyen1963]

Not the button...

Read the post that I was responding to...

[lambo]

i've hear that its for when the motors are drawing too much load (like icy windows or closing on an arm). Since its aready there, why bother even messing with it?

Well with my 4 door E36 switch swap I now have a ton of extra wire, the window lock switch and the circuit breaker tucked up under the shift boot... Needless to say, room is pretty tight down there.

[Zreberlcoe]

No, the speaker button is for balancing the volume...left and right.

Not the button...

[jeffnhiscars]

This brand new looking one on ebay is going for over $60!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BMW-e30-OEM-...b08d45&vxp=mtr

The switch is $1. The pictogram is $59.

Worth every penny IMHO ;)

[King Mufasa]

Its to unlock its hidden extra 100hp!!

[tytypetersen]

This brand new looking one on ebay is going for over $60!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BMW-e30-OEM-...b08d45&vxp=mtr

[jeffnhiscars]

I think it is a simple on\off switch to disable the electric windows and not a circuit breaker. It was probably mandated by the DOT along with child proof door locks...that most of us can't open :-)

[ohthejosh]

"tuck the shit under".

Said somewhere backstage at a Drag Queen show.

[McGyver]

Well a circuit breaker just works by breaking the connection of a circuit and this switch only has two wires going in and subsequently out of it. Therefore, I would assume it is just breaking the connection between those two wires, hence...if you never use the button, why not just connect the two wires and have it permanently on? That's why I was wondering if there was a reason as to why there is one since the general consensus is that no one uses the damn thing... Maybe it goes off if a window motor is under too heavy of a load? Or what?

i've hear that its for when the motors are drawing too much load (like icy windows or closing on an arm). Since its aready there, why bother even messing with it?

This is the same button that's on my center console in my 325is right? Next to the passenger window switch? I wondered what that was...

yup, same button. It should be sorta hard to press and red is visible when its in the out position.

[HawaiianE30]

This is the same button that's on my center console in my 325is right? Next to the passenger window switch? I wondered what that was...

[lambo]

Not sure what you mean by splicing the wires - but my frame of mind is to "leave it reversible for a possible future owner".

Given that this involves what console you're using, my vote is to just "tuck the shit under".

Well a circuit breaker just works by breaking the connection of a circuit and this switch only has two wires going in and subsequently out of it. Therefore, I would assume it is just breaking the connection between those two wires, hence...if you never use the button, why not just connect the two wires and have it permanently on? That's why I was wondering if there was a reason as to why there is one since the general consensus is that no one uses the damn thing... Maybe it goes off if a window motor is under too heavy of a load? Or what?