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Matt has sent me these photos for his black BMW E36 or the "black knight" as he likes to call it 😀 . The photo shoot was taken in Frodsham and Cheshire. The photos are really nice and include some sight seeing as well. So enjoy them, I hope you like the car and the photos as much as I do.

UPDATE: I added the Liverpool night time photos to the collection

Take a look:

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I’ve found this video for a BMW E36 with Plasma gauges. I have to admit, the color mix is not the best I saw (especially with that Cyan color on the outer circles), but it looks nice though. Please let me know what do you think? BTW, check my previous posts BMW E36 with blue interior LED lights and BMW E36 With Blue Interior LED Lights . . . Revisited to read more about these gauges.

This is the video

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Hi Guys,

I feel like I need to apologize for not posting anything in the last two days. I’m sure you think that I’ve been too lazy to write anything. I wish this was true.

Actually, the email server on the BMW E36 Blog has been acting crazy in the last two days and it was thinking, for some reason, that I’ve exceeded my emails limit quota per hour which is actually 500 emails/hour. It doesn’t make sense and that caused the server to prevent me from sending any emails thinking that I’m sending too many emails.

This of course didn’t affect my emails only, it affected the commenting process on the blog because when you make a comment on a specific post, anyone who is subscribed to that post will receive a notification about your comment. This failed too.

The registrations on this blog has crashed as well.

So, I’ve been actually living in hell through these days and I just wanted to explain what is going on.

For the time being it seems the problem is fixed and that everything is back to normal. I promise I will be publishing new posts in no time.

Thanks for understanding.

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I alway wanted to learn to speak French because I abslutely love that language. Sometimes, I thought of learning German language instead in order to be able to read the BMW E36 owner’s manual (LOL! silly idea 😀 I know).

Luckily, today I was able to put my hands on the BMW E36 owner’s manual in english, so now, I don’t need to learn German (well, maybe after I learn French) and I don’t need Google’s translation service any more.

You can download it from here: BMW E36 Owners Manual

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I published the post Faulty temperature sensor in BMW E36 long time ago. The post talked about the reason why your OBC shows a wrong external temperature like -35F or -37C. At the time of writing that post, I was going to replace the sensor and to my surprise I found that it’s missing. Luckily the wires where hanging there. It seems that someone thought it’s not necessary and this car will not need it. Anyway, somehow I forgot the whole thing and it took me until today to actually get a new one (used) :p , take a look below:

Poor sensor 😀 . The wiring was very easy, just connect the sensor wires to the wires inside your brake duct and you’re set.

After I connected the temperature sensor, I thought the car will show the temperature right away, but it took some time until it started showing the correct temperature. First it started like this -37C , then  gradually increasing until it reached 0C then it started going up until it reached 30C.

It’s very nice to fix this problem and very easy at the same time, so if you have this problem in your car, I don’t think you should wait like I did. Just get the temp sensor and fix it.

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