BMW E36 coupe dashboard retrofit
I have spent a lot of time in the garage over Christmas, working on my car. The temperature in the garage was constantly less then 3°C, but otherwise it was very relaxing.
The point of me almost freezing to death was to upgrade the old half grey dashboard in my 3er to a better looking all black dash that BMW put in these cars after the facelift.
While having the dash off, I also decided it was a good time to rethink, rebuild and most importantly tidy up all the custom electronics that I have been working on over the last year. This includes the wires and crossovers of the front speakers, the alarm and my little black box that takes care of rolling up the windows upon locking the car.
The point of the black box is to intercept the communication between the alarm and the rest of the car and modify it or react to it. The most visible function is the automatic window roll-up upon locking. It also contains diodes needed to connect all door sensors to a single pin on the alarm, a relay that prevents the automatic locking of doors after starting and parts of other mechanisms that I have not yet fully implemented. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of the inside of the box..
The new dashboard fits very well, there are no squeaking noises or similar. The glove compartment door will need a little fixing, though, it doesn't fit very well, probably due to bad mounting of the central panel next to it. I have also spilled some of the substance that I was using for cleaning over the dash as you can see on the picture, otherwise the dash is very clean and looks nice.
The next upgrade will probably be a new steering wheel and some black floor mats.
The point of me almost freezing to death was to upgrade the old half grey dashboard in my 3er to a better looking all black dash that BMW put in these cars after the facelift.
While having the dash off, I also decided it was a good time to rethink, rebuild and most importantly tidy up all the custom electronics that I have been working on over the last year. This includes the wires and crossovers of the front speakers, the alarm and my little black box that takes care of rolling up the windows upon locking the car.
The point of the black box is to intercept the communication between the alarm and the rest of the car and modify it or react to it. The most visible function is the automatic window roll-up upon locking. It also contains diodes needed to connect all door sensors to a single pin on the alarm, a relay that prevents the automatic locking of doors after starting and parts of other mechanisms that I have not yet fully implemented. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of the inside of the box..
The new dashboard fits very well, there are no squeaking noises or similar. The glove compartment door will need a little fixing, though, it doesn't fit very well, probably due to bad mounting of the central panel next to it. I have also spilled some of the substance that I was using for cleaning over the dash as you can see on the picture, otherwise the dash is very clean and looks nice.
The next upgrade will probably be a new steering wheel and some black floor mats.
posted by Jaroslav Klíma at
4:01 PM
9 Comments:
Thats awesome dude, I'm planning this at some point as well - how long did it take? I'm guessing there isnt actually an airbag in the pass side on your new dash?
Chris
It took me two weeks because I was at home for Christmas, didn't need to use the car and did other stuff while the dash was out. If you only wanted to remove the dashboard and fit a new one you could probably do it in one night, unless you don't get stuck on something (like the screws under the front window vents, they are impossible if you don't have the right tools)
great job man... I think about that dashboard fromE36 sedan/coupe to install in E36 compact, but before than I start I want to be sure is it easy job or need a lot of warious modification`s... can you give me some information, any picture, link anything.... thanks a lot
I dont think it has to do with facelifts, its pass side airbag and not having one
I thought that only (all) facelifted cars had passanger side airbags, but you are probably right. It seems that the new dashboard (and second airbag) was fitted as soon as 1994 and facelift was in 1996.
i dont think the coupes had pass. airbags. and the e36 sedan to compact dash is pretty straight forward. im doing it here in a few weeks i came up on a really clean one at a friends junk yard. all black
got that backwards. coupes did have a pass airbag while sedans didnt.
did you have to remove vin?
An access control point, which can be a door, turnstile, parking gate, elevator, or other physical barrier, where granting access can be electronically controlled.
Typically, the access point is a door. An electronic access control door can contain several elements.For more details please see.
electronic door lock
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