Comments on: BMW E36 Heated Mirrors

By: Tony Sticks

Tony Sticks — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:44:27 +0000

@Petrit: It weird why BMW didn’t connect it that way originally. It doesn’t make sense!!

By: Petrit

Petrit — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:46:15 +0000

I have also the heated mirrors. When I bot the car, they were not coming hot at all.
I sent the car to the electrician and he contected those with the back window defroster,
so now I can control their on and off.

By: Tony Sticks

Tony Sticks — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:47:04 +0000

Hi Dennis,

So, you mean that your mirrors don’t start heating unless the temp is 3 degrees or less. Is it possible that you mirrors are just heating all the time regardless of the outside temperature?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:41:27 +0000

Yeah i can confirm that the mirrors start heating at +3 degress celcius, when the temperature hits +3 degress mirrors and the back window defroster (dunno what’s the right name in english), turns on automatically.

By: Tony Sticks

Tony Sticks — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:42:38 +0000

Thanks sach, this explains it clearly.

By: sach767

sach767 — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:37:17 +0000

Page 52. Mirrors:

ELECTRONIC MIRROR HEATING

The two outside mirrors are heated automatically at a controlled rate when the ignition key is in position 2.

Cheers…

By: Tony Sticks

Tony Sticks — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:39:43 +0000

Sach,

LOOL! that’s really funny. So, we’re sure now that our cars don’t have some mysterious problem. Can you please quote the whole paragraph from the owners manual and write it down here? thank you for pointing this out.

By: sach767

sach767 — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:57:25 +0000

I hv the same problem as tony sticks, only heated on 1 side. Anyway, it does say in the owners manual that is desinged to be heated at all times at a minimal temperature. Worst of all, I live in hot country, Malaysia..NO WINTER..hahaha. Cheers

By: Tony Sticks

Tony Sticks — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:53:09 +0000

I checked my mirrors and found that the driver’s side mirror is hot while the other mirror is not (it’s not working I guess). I didn’t turn on the defrost nor the heated seats, which means that they don’t control the heated mirrors.

The only last option that I can think of is the OBC because my OBC is showing -37C temperature. Does your OBC show the correct temp? If yes and the temperature is high (more than 15 Celcius) and your heated mirrors feel hot, then the OBC has nothing to do with it either.

By: Barney McComas

Barney McComas — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:35:50 +0000

I have a ‘94 325i convertible with the Winter Package - which comes in very handy in San Diego. (c; I’ve noticed that the heated side mirrors stay warm all the time, too. I’m guessing this is the result of a failure in a 13-year-old electronic system rather than design, since the 2nd fan setting of my climate control system also doesn’t work and my radio even has some glitches. Anyone who lives in (or has driven through) a colder climate has probably noticed that even the 11-button OBC warns you when the outside temperature approaches freezing, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the heated mirrors are also connected to and activated by the outside temp, but don’t know for sure. If anyone knows what causes the mirrors to stay heated and if it can be fixed, I’d sure like to stop heating my mirrors during our 9- to 10-months of warm weather.