Power Window Help

#1

My cage is done and I’m ready to retrieve my car, but the power windows won’t work. This is important to me because I don’t have a garage and they are currently down. The dash was removed for the cage install and presumably upset some wires or the power window circuit breaker (the fuse is fine). They have worked intermittently for the cage builder. Anyone have any suggestions or know where to find the power window circuit breaker? Anyone know if the power windows can be manually overridden like the sunr roof?

Thanks,
Sasha

#2

Shasha - There should be a access hole (round plastic cap) in the door panel that allows you to manually crank the window up/down. I just checked mine (an '87 325i 4 door). Ed

#3

The circuit breaker is a button – on '87 and earlier cars, it’s a rectangular button the same size as the emergency flashers, and is found in one of the holes above the radio. On '88 and later cars, the breaker is a square button found to the rear of the driver’s side window buttons on the shifter console.

On my '87, the breaker wire leads were blue/green and each had a single right-angle female spade connector.

On this pic, the breaker on this pre-88 car is the rightmost, next to the rear window defroster control.



Post edited by: sharkd, at: 2006/01/24 22:53

#4

it may sound strange, but swap the switches…the contacts get pitted badly inside and they no worky worky sometimes. all of my E30’s (3) have had that problem so far or it is the breaker that was mentioned above.

#5

Thanks for all the help, guys. Now I know what that button on my dash is for! I looked for an explanation in the owner’s manual when I bought the car for my mystery button, but there’s nothing on it in the manual. Another case of weird German engineering, but I’m happy to have my windows back.

Sasha

#6

At least you didn’t do what I did. At the end of a rainy day at the track, my windows wouldn’t go up (I didn’t realize there was that breaker either) and I ended up unbolting the window hardware, pushed up the windows manually and wedged some duct tape in to hold the windows up on the drive home. :frowning: