BMW E36 Blog

I have always enjoyed watching the BMW E36 videos in the race track. I’ve posted Aggressive BMW E36 325i in the race track before and many other videos. It seems I can’t get enough of that. Today, I’ve found a BMW E36 M3 Evo racing against a Porsche 911 turbo. Although the BMW E36 M3 was behind the Porsche almost all the time, but the race was really cool and you keep telling the BMW E36 driver … "come on man let’s beat that silly Porsche" LOL! 😆 . I don’t know about you, but for me, that’s what I was trying to say to the BMW E36 driver.

Take a look and let’s see how you like it:-

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It’s time for our monthly model post. In today’s post, I chose this cool silver BMW. I love everything about this car and it seems to be in the best shape that you can find a BMW E36 in. I want you to pay attention to the 5-spoke rims. The black mirrors. The clear headlights and the shaded windows. That’s a really cool setup and I think it’s one of the coolest setups that I’ve ever seen. I hope you like this car as much as I do. For those of you who have a silver BMW E36 and looking to make changes to the car’s exterior, I think it’s a smart step to try and make your car look like this one.

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I wrote before about a BMW E36 with blue interior LED lights conversion process. In that post, I presented a video with a modified BMW E36 and it looked great!. After that, I did some research to gather more information about how this process is done. It turned out that all the parts should be removed and the amber lights inside them should be replaced with blue LEDs (Light Emission Diodes). This can be accomplished with some intense work and care.

What I felt missing from this process is the gauges conversion. If you saw the video in my previous post, you will notice the red needles on the blue gauges. I was unclear about how this should be done until I found the owner of that car (DJ Genius). I’ve contacted him and asked him about these gauges and how he made the conversion. It turned out that these gauges are actually sold as one piece on the German Ebay and for a really great price (49 EUR). Check them out here.

I believe this is really nice and will make your car stand out from the crowd. So what do you think of such a conversion? Is it really cool or what?

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This is a video for a Subaru STI snowboarding! yeah, you heard me right Snowboarding. I’ve never thought this is possible, but today’s video proves me wrong. I have to admit that it looks like fun, don’t you think? It makes me feel like going to snowboarding with my BMW too, the only thing I hate about it is that I know my car can’t do it. Hell yeah, like I can do it even with a Subaru STI LOOL 😆 . Enjoy and please don’t forget to let me know what you think of this? Anyone with a brilliant modification to make BMW cars snowboard?

Take a look:-

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I wrote couple days ago an article about BMW E36 Parking Distance Control (Parking Sensors) and I was very excited to discover that some BMW E36 cars came with a parking distance control system. If you didn’t read my previous post yet, please do before proceeding with this. I’ve decided to dig into this subject more and may be find a DIY about how to install such a system in a BMW if that car didn’t originally have one. So, I was looking for more information about this parking distance control system (PDC for short) and I found that it costs a lot of money. I also found some information about other solutions that I thought are more valuable and I guess more modern for BMW cars.

The modern parking systems are actually equipped with camera(s) to help you park your car and see everything that is behind you. These systems are usually very expensive and hard to install, but I found two systems that I thought you’d like to know about.

The first system is equipped with two cameras which are supposed to work as  left and right mirrors while parking. Take a look at this photo:

This system is provided with two TFT LCD monitors and you can control brightness, color, and contrast. What I didn’t understand about this system is why they provided 2 monitors with different sizes? Why the two monitors are not of the same size?

Anyway, I kept looking for more information and I found another system which provides you with a monitor and a digital distance display that is integrated into your rear-view mirror. I think this is much cooler as I hate to make huge changes to the car’s interior. So, I think this system can be used inside your BMW and look OEM a the same time.

Take a look at these photos:

This system issues a warning sound when getting too close as well. I think this is much cooler than the previous one.

What I still need to figure out about these systems is how they can be installed inside a BMW E36. I think the most obvious thing is to connect the power of this system with your reverse light. This way, the system will turn on automatically when you use the reverse gear. But I still need to know how hard is it going to be to make holes inside your rear bumper and whether they’re going to look good or not.

Please feel free to let me know what you think? Do you know of any better solutions?

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