December 14, 2008 06:38PM
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Daniel was wondering about how easy it is to do this upgrade...
[www.iprimus.ca] I did it in about 10 minutes...getting it into the OBC in sutu will take about 20 minutes |
December 14, 2008 07:38PM
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This looks like a great thing, do the led lights make it bright enough Peter? |
December 14, 2008 07:45PM
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Put that in the sticky section.
Put these in too: [ee1394.com] [www.realoem.com] [shark.armchair.mb.ca] [e30world.com] [home.comcast.net] [e30.bmwdiy.info] alan |
December 14, 2008 07:46PM
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They sure do...better than the original light bulbs You can make them brighter or dimmer by changing the vale of the resistors. |
January 27, 2009 11:31AM
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January 27, 2009 07:17PM
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I think Ferdinand has a great write up for this but its basically taking the front panel off, I've done it a few ways but that is the easiest; radio etc. comes out and then there are two screws on top behind the pull out switches and two under the bottom of the panel that you access from the tray area (pointing upwards). This seems like a lot of work but it is easy once you've done it... Rick |
January 27, 2009 07:48PM
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This is the link to the original tech article by Gustavo Melo... [web.archive.org] It is very slow to load so have patience |
January 27, 2009 08:26PM
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January 27, 2009 09:14PM
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January 27, 2009 09:15PM
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That is not the old site. It's an online archive which was a mirror of the old site. The archive has always been there. Most of the articles that owners could be found for have been saved on a site by 'igor'... Daniel, where did our link to igor's site go??? |
January 27, 2009 09:16PM
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No, Andy was thinking of the archivees. |
January 28, 2009 12:43AM
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i'm not sure. i took a look around and couldn't find them. we were going to make a sticky here in the tech section with several links, but one member expressed disinterest in that idea, so I hesitated to implement anything. i think there should be a separate section/subforum for FAQ DIY stuff, but then that was going to go into place on the homepage of bmwe30network.net, so we haven't made one of those. I don't think ONE sticky with all of these useful links would hurt, though. |
January 28, 2009 08:55AM
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I'm not Daniel, bit I'll answer anyway. The link is on the "main" page: http://www.bmwe30network.net/ -- which is not reall "main" at all, but could be. I would like to have something reminiscent of the old BEN there, but sadly doing so will take more time and work than it took setting up this forum site. I would love to copy all the old BEN tech articles to our new site, but a) I don't want to step on Igor's toes with his site; and b) the whole issue of who "owns" those articles is very fuzzy to me. Igor got permission from all the authors to republish their articles on E30world (which is why his site has only a small subset of what was on BEN). I'm not sure that's necessary, but I'm not sure it isn't, either. Either way, it's a good gesture. Having to do that again is pretty much a non-starter for me. __________ Dave '91 325iX |
January 28, 2009 10:47AM
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May 16, 2012 08:42PM
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'm wondering how this would look with white LED's. The instructions say to use orange, but I don't see why plain white wouldn't be more like original. The original bulbs were just plain white. I replaced my bulbs once with white bulbs and they looked fine, but died already. Is a white LED too bright maybe?
BTW, that's a good one to add to the tech links collection. led strip Flexible LED Strip Lights Outdoor LED Lighting |
May 16, 2012 10:06PM
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White/clear LED's are fine because there is an amber filter in front of them anyway. I used clear ones and they look just like factory |