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And here’s the second round of photos Random BMW E36 Photos. I hope you like them.

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I’ve found a nice collection of photos for BMW E36 cars and I decided to share them with you guys. The collection has around 32 photos, so I had to divide them into two posts. Oh .. Yes, I have to warn you, some of these cars are heavily modified and they will make you feel bad that you didn’t spend more on your car. Acting on this feeling may cause serious loss of money! You have been warned! 😆

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This is the third post in the series of how to create a control device to turn your BMW lights on automatically when it gets dark. In the first post Turning Your BMW Lights On Automatically At Night, we’ve seen how it is possible to control a light using an electronic circuit that is sensitive to light. In the second post, Turning Your BMW Lights On Automatically At Night . . . Circuit Diagram, I presented an electronic diagram that can be used as the light controller inside the car. Of course, everything I said until that post was a theory that I’m almost sure that everyone of you thought it’s impossible or at least hard to implement. At least that explains why I didn’t get any comments on that article which I’m pretty sure it’s very interesting to everyone who drives a BMW E36.

Anyway, I decided to go one step further and try to implement my theory and my electronic circuit to see if it’s going to work or not. So, I brought everything that I mentioned in the second post + breadboard to help me implement the circuit and test it to see how efficient it is going to be. After I put the electronic circuit together, I discovered that the relay is not working :p . So, I had to pull one of the car relays to use it in my test. The circuit on the breadboard looked like this (very simply):

After that, I went to the car and connected the wires to my battery and started manipulating the variable resistor until I heard the relay ticking. When I heard the tick I moved the variable resistor back a little bit until I heard the relay tick again (this time it’s disconnecting). Now everything is set up correctly. I tried to cover the CDS (Cadmium Sulfide Cell) with my hand to make it "think" it’s dark and the relay ticked. Yay! it meant that the circuit is really working and all I had to do right now is to connect the car headlights to the relay and we’re done.

The circuit that I used is this:

When I tried to connect the headlights, I left the circuit on and after I connected the headlights to the relay, I tried again and opss. It’s not working anymore. Damn it!

It turned out that my circuit which was missing the 1KΩ resistor that is connected to the transistor base is not going to make the transistor last long. This problem is happening because the transistor base is not supposed to receive high current which I gladly sent to it. To solve this problem, I introduced the resistor to protect the transistor base and replaced the old transistor with a new one. Try again … it worked for a minute and then my radio stopped working 😆

Its seems that my battery went dead because I left the lights on for some time. beginner’s mistake huh 😀

So, I removed the circuit and tried to turn my car on but it didn’t, after that I had to abort the mission and solve the car’s problem before continuing the experiment. That’s what happened last night. I hope I will be able to give you an update on this as soon as I make this circuit perfect.

What I learned until now is that this circuit is going to work on my car, but I need more time to make it work perfectly. In case you didn’t notice, I introduced a capacitor to the circuit as well which is supposed to make the headlights work for a little bit longer when the CDS is exposed to light after dark. This is supposed to avoid light flickering inside your car.

I hope you enjoyed today’s post. Until my next adventure with this project, please stay tuned to get more updates on it.

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I hope you like this 😆

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I know that it’s usually hard to choose a specific wheel/rim style for your car. You usually start looking at other cars like yours and try to find the best wheel style that fits this car and feel like it’s going to make the car look hot. Unfortunately, many times you end up buying wheels that don’t really look good on your car and since these are usually expensive ones, you will not try to change them unless you get a very good deal to exchange them with another set and pay a little bit more.

This happened to me many times but if I had a list of some possible choices for my car, I would have avoided such mistakes too many times. Today, I gathered 15 different rims that look really nice (well, not all of them) and they are supposed to help you make a choice.

I added a ranking under everyone of these styles, but please don’t feel disappointed if I gave a low rank for a wheel that you really like. This is just my opinion and what I like best may not be the rule for everyone else. I hope you find this list useful for you in case you’re unhappy about your car wheels and you’re considering a change real soon.

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