[BMWCSRegistry] Window relay circuit (was temperature gauge)

[Art Wegweiser]

By golly Charlie. I had forgotten this. How did they get the green 
eye shade guys to agree to add another switch or relay and three feet 
of wire?

So very thoughtful of them to have added this - especially as the 
production run of E9's was soon to shut down forever.  Can't say as I 
miss this feature in Ilse even though it eliminated the need expend 
the effort to turn on the ignition for a moment to close the windows.
I can close mine even with the door open. It's called a crank - but 
that does take a little more energy.
Although a third electric window in the passenger door would have 
been quite nice when driving at speed on a busy Interstate and it 
starts to rain.

Art
Do tell us more about your menhune.  Never heard of it. When I was 
over there I was too busy ogling luscious brown women, trying to like 
ukelele music,  and keeping moving so my sneakers wouldn 't melt as 
we walked over the crispy lava field formed last week.


At 9:12 PM +0812 1/8/07, knowtree at aloha.com wrote:
>  "Peavey, Charlie" <CPeavey at HPTI.com> wrote:
>>  Bill,
>>
>>  That is a feature added to at least the '74 model (possibly earlier?).
>>  There is a relay to power the windows, actuated by the driver's door
>>  switch (same one that turns on the interior light).  Obviously, the idea
>>  was to make it more convenient when you shut off the engine and then
>>  realize you forgot to roll up the windows.  You just open the driver's
>>  door, and the window circuits are energized.  You should be able to
>>  operate them with the door closed but the ignition on as well.  I
>>  believe the ignition switch also energizes that relay.  The relay is
>>  under the dash, near the hood release lever. 
>
>So I was not under the spell of a menehune (Hawaiian prankster ghost). When
>I got the car everything worked fine. One day the windows stopped working,
>but every time I worked on it, they worked. That's because while I was
>working on it the door was open. Next day, on the way to work, window would
>not go down. I assumed I had cross connected the window power to the
>interior light, but could not imagine how I had managed to make such a mess.
>
>Gary Dunn
>Honolulu

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