Hole in dash left of steering wheel

[dave45056]

I had a rectangular hole in the lower dash, to the left of the stering wheel. It has been open since I got my ti. The last time I bought some dealer parts, I ordered parts 15 and 23 on this diagram and installed them.
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts...62&hg=51&fg=30

Anyway, I got thinking... what are these covers for? Did some options put switches here? Has anyone done a mod which uses this part?

[spidertri]

That is where my ASC button is to turn it off and on. That is the only switch in the panel in my car. The other two are blank.

[dave45056]

at least you have a button... mine looks like this...



But it looks better than the hole that was there.

[lysergicsurfer]

I put one switch for fog lights there. Also I wired up my cooling fan for a simple on/off toggle switch, and installed it there too.

I believe BMW would have left room there for dealer installed options.


There is a good amount of room there, if you are creative you could make a switch for most anything? I.E. Push start button, underglow lights??,....

[tiFreak]

I wonder what the other two slots are, and how BMW had the foresight to put them on the original ti's before they even came out with ASC

[pdxmotorhead]

I think one is the button we can't have in the US, it disables the antilock brakes.
I don't know if they have seperate switch for rear fog light as well.

Dave

[eshtebah]

On my '98 318ti 1st slot is: Remote headlight adjustment
2nd slot is empty
3rd slot ASC

[THAT318]

i think once i get my ti registered and legal to drive again i will make put one for fogs but not sure about the other...

[Spedi03]

What it looks like populated by BMW on a RHD 318ti.

[THAT318]

jealous i want a RHD 318ti... id settle on anything right hand drive. even just for a day...

[Spedi03]

Originally Posted by THAT318

jealous i want a RHD 318ti... id settle on anything right hand drive. even just for a day...

Come to Japan. I'll rent it to you for a day.

[THAT318]

lol idk man.. if i came to japan id be more amazed by hondas for some strange reason.. maybe cuz your hondas are better than ours. deep down inside i love hondas but they are wrong wheel drive! lol whens honda gonna learn front wheel drive just isnt practical for the way most of us like to drive... pretty sure id rather drift then power slide any day.. yea? haha and if i spent the money to come all the way to japan a fellow ti owner would charge me to drive his ti.. some hospitality huh lol

[Spedi03]

Originally Posted by THAT318

lol idk man.. if i came to japan id be more amazed by hondas for some strange reason.. maybe cuz your hondas are better than ours. deep down inside i love hondas but they are wrong wheel drive! lol whens honda gonna learn front wheel drive just isnt practical for the way most of us like to drive... pretty sure id rather drift then power slide any day.. yea? haha and if i spent the money to come all the way to japan a fellow ti owner would charge me to drive his ti.. some hospitality huh lol

That's funny. Most guys are amazed by the Hot to Not ratio of the chicks first. The Hondas are cool, but the Nissan GT/R SpecV would by my car of choice.

[THAT318]

eh.. lol never heard of a spec v gt/r im assuming thats a variation of a skyline.. but if i came id look for a s15!! we never got that here! lol...but yea we got girls here in the states.. and where i live in az the mexican girls arent too bad.. but then again the "gangster" ones are wack haha...

[Spedi03]

Check it out here. A neighbor has one and sitting still it looks badass.

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/...ive/index.html

Not sure if that story mentions it but the JDM ones have 2 settings in the chip. One is for street and one is for track. If the GPS determines you are near one of the approved tracks it changes programming to give you the track settings. And we think other places have harsh speeding laws....