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DISCUSSION => Interior => Topic started by: takumei86 on June 07, 2008, 04:31:56 PM

Title: what does this do?
Post by: takumei86 on June 07, 2008, 04:31:56 PM: my car is a 4 door 318i i dont know what this button does i push it and nothing!! no my interior pic but u get the idea! :::

not there but its where the red circle is
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Title: what does this do?
Post by: Choking Hazard on June 07, 2008, 11:08:12 PM: Its not the window lockout button (not actually circled)? Could it be a rear foglight?
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Post by: Cobra Jet on June 10, 2008, 09:26:56 AM: all I see is a red circle w/ nothing inside of it... what exactly were you trying to circle? I don't see any button besides the window buttons...
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Post by: Blackice on June 14, 2008, 01:30:36 AM: That switch controls the rear window switches. If your lights work in your window switches you can see if they have power by just turning your head.
Title: what does this do?
Post by: xwill112x on June 18, 2008, 09:12:21 PM: i think its your 12v reset button.
atleast thats what someone told me.
Title: what does this do?
Post by: BMWManiac on June 22, 2008, 10:06:37 AM: I have that button too, and I thought it was the central locking button....at least that is where it is on my E36 M3?
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Post by: Sam Cogley on June 22, 2008, 02:34:30 PM: My owner's manual says that the fifth power window button is the circuit breaker reset for the windows.
Title: what does this do?
Post by: quinn11m20 on June 22, 2008, 05:02:20 PM: Maybe is is the child safety window lock button. Ya think?
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Post by: xwill112x on June 22, 2008, 05:34:42 PM: no you idiot, thats on the right side , not the left.
Title: what does this do?
Post by: quinn11m20 on June 22, 2008, 05:43:00 PM: then what button is he talking about numbnuts!!!!
Title: what does this do?
Post by: xwill112x on June 22, 2008, 06:18:21 PM: its a circuit breaker.
Title: what does this do?
Post by: BMWManiac on June 22, 2008, 07:51:17 PM: Why would it be on the center console like that?
Title: what does this do?
Post by: Sam Cogley on June 22, 2008, 09:51:18 PM: Quote from: BMWManiac;51808
Why would it be on the center console like that?

So it's easy to get to? Looking at some instruction manuals, it looks like some E30s had an overall electrical system circuit breaker in one of the button openings above the radio, too.
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Post by: BMWManiac on June 23, 2008, 02:21:24 PM: It just seems odd that the circuit breaker switch would be something you need "access" to all the time....I guess I don't need to keep pressing it then!
Title: what does this do?
Post by: Jimmy Lewis on June 23, 2008, 08:31:36 PM: Nice car phone btw, I'm sure you guys know what button he means but I don't see it, and I don't have it.