BMW E36 Blog

This post was contributed by Paul from Latvia (He’s a loyal reader of the BMW E36 Blog). He sent me these photos of his car and his friend’s car (I think) after taking some really nice shots in an old paper factory left from the USSR. The cars look great and the photos are awesome. Thanks Paul.

Take a look:-

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I usually post about a BMW E36 that needs too much work and I ask you what you can do to make it look great with minimum changes? Today, I’ve found this black BMW E36 M3 which looks great already, but I still think that it can look even better. So, I’m going to ask you what can you do to modify this car and make it look better with only ONE change?

Take a look:-

If it was up to me, I would change the headlights to one of the new types that come up in one piece (with the corner light). For instance the third type with angel eyes in BMW E36 Headlights. I’m sure it will make it look fabulous. What about you? What would you change?

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Before I start this post. There’s one thing that is really confusing me? Why I’m not getting any response for these articles from you guys? Don’t you like to make your car headlights turn on automatically like the 200X cars? Isn’t that cool? Come on people, let me hear what you think good or bad 😈 .

I wrote four articles until now about how you can make your BMW lights turn on automatically at night. In the first post, I proved that this should be something easy to implement inside a BMW E36 car. In the second post, I presented a circuit diagram that will help you create the electronic circuit that is supposed to control your lights and turn them on automatically when it gets dark. In the third post, I wrote about my first attempt to implement this circuit and told you that it’s partially working but it needed some enhancements. In the fourth post, I created a video with the circuit implemented on breadboard and connected directly to my brother’s car lights. The video showed how the car lights turned on when I covered the light sensor with my hand (tricking the sensor to "think" it’s dark). So, the circuit is working correctly as intended.

In this new post, I soldered the circuit on permanent board and the end result looks like this:

I made sure that this circuit has the following:

1. Two wires for power (positive and negative).
2. Two long wires that are connected to the external light sensor. I made them long because I’m still not sure where I’m going to place that sensor. Take a look at this:

3. Three wires connected to an external variable resistor, this will allow us to adjust how sensitive the unit will be for light. Take a look at this:

4. Three wires that will deliver current from the battery directly to the headlights when it becomes dark.

With this circuit implemented, I think I’m ready to integrate this into my car. I hope in the next week, I will post a video here while I’m driving my car under a tunnel and show you how everything will work. :-). But please let me know what do you think of all this? Also, if you have any ideas about where I should put the light sensor, please let me know.

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I wrote three articles until now about how you can make your BMW lights turn on automatically at night. In the first post, I proved that this should be something easy to implement inside a BMW E36 car. In the second post, I presented a circuit diagram that will help you create the electronic circuit that is supposed to control your lights and to turn them on automatically at night. In the third post, I wrote about my first attempt to implement this circuit and told you that it’s partially working but it needed some enhancements.

Today, I had the time to re-implement the circuit that I’ve been talking about and I connected it to the car. Then, I shot this video for the circuit in action. In the video, I tried to put my hands closer to the light sensor to make it "think" it’s night. Take a look at the video and let me know what you all think.

Note: this car is not mine, it’s my brother’s car and it’s dirty as usual 😆 .

Enjoy :-

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Unfortunately this BMW E36 is not highly modified for best performance and some how it needed another exhaust to help the engine breath better. It’s just a fake exhaust that the owner of the car thought it’s going to look cool on the car. The bad news is that it’s not even close to cool. At least in my opinion because I’ve read some replies about this image which agreed that it’s a cool thing, so there are people out there who think this will be a nice thing to do for a BMW E36. Me on the other hand, I really hate it and it makes the BMW E36 look ugly and a little bit silly. Anyway, I thought I would post about it here and see what you think of it. Important, if you have a bad heart or blood pressure problems, stop here and leave this page immediately 😆 . Have fun!

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