From jfiresto_at_AWI-Bremerhaven.DE Tue Mar 18 06:13:18 1997
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 15:14:55 +0100
From: jfiresto_at_AWI-Bremerhaven.DE (John Firestone)
To: dale_at_unofficialbmw.com
Subject: Vent window installation notes

REMOVING AN ELECTRICALLY HEATED DRIVER'S SEAT

After freeing seat, slide it all the way forward then tilt it back to expose seat wiring underneath. Detach three connectors:

leftmost: ws/rt, bn
middle: ws/gn, bn
rightmost: smallest one is tricky: look for hole holding locking bump slide knife blade in on that side and spread lift up shell. Slide off connector.

REMOVING A REAR SEAT BOLSTER

Need to remove rear seat bench and rear seat backs first, then plastic side cups accepting seat back axle pins. Pull top of bolster straight forward until it comes free. You need to pull pretty hard. (All other panels and things come off much more easily.)
Lift bolster up off lower hook.

REMOVING DRIVER'S SIDE CARPET to get at electrical raceways underneath

1. Remove hood release lever.
2. Pull back weather stripping around lower corner of front door.
3. Turn slotted plastic screw below lever 90 deg CW then

   remove right front side speaker grill.

4. Remove round screw knob holding down carpet near gas pedal.
5. I had a different style trim strip running the length of the door.

   I pulled the rear of strip up and off the large plastic disk it was attached to, moved the back of strip out then back down so that it was next to disk. I then slide the trim strip forward and off. It took a second set of hands to get it back on.

GLOVEBOX REMOVAL

There was a ninth, 10 mm bolt under glove box light.

FUSEBOX CABLE CLAMP

Do not try to open it further per the instructions. You may lose one of the three screws you need to remove down the sound insulation at the front the driver foot well. Instead, insert tape covered screw driver and depress a space for cables at the side of the wire bundle passing through firewall.

TO REMOVE CENTER CONSOLE

First remove the glovebox. Then remove 3 screws forward and 1 plastic nut by shift lever.

WHEN INSTALLING REAR VENT WINDOW MOTORS

Tape inside top nut in place to help start its mounting bolt.

PLACING DUAL VENT WINDOW RELAY

U.S. knee protection blocks relays assigned place. Clip it on to a free space on the left front wall.

TERMINAL BLOCK ON FRONT LEFT WALL

Comes off by lifting straight up. When adding cables take care not loop cables coming down front wall.

POWER SUPPLY LINE (Stromversorgungskabelbaum)

Wire Da (Sw/Gn) to ZKE (behind glovebox) is too short and X13254 pin 19 already had a Sw/Gn wire in it. Need to extend wire and splice into existing Sw/Gn wire.

Wiring to fuse F13 is a bit goofy: it places the power relay upstream of the fuse. I reversed this so the fuse is first. I first added new 2.5 mm^2 Rt wire from X9 B+ to one side of F13, then cut and spliced harnesses to follow 9/95 German ETM 5133.0-06.

SUPPLEMENTARY WIRING HARNESS (Zusatzkabelbaum)

Wire L (Sw/Rt) to ZKE is too short and X13254 pin 18 already had a Sw/Gn wire in it. Need to extend wire and splice into existing Sw/Rt wire.