BMW 3 series E46

Since 1998 of release

Repair and car operation


The BMW of 3 series Е46
+ Cars BMW 3 (Е46)
+ Current leaving and service
+ The engine
+ Systems of cooling, heating
+ Power supply systems, injection and release
+ Engine electric equipment
+ manual transmission and трансмиссионная a line
+ Automatic transmission
+ Coupling and power shafts
+ Brake system
+ Suspension bracket and steering
+ Body
- Onboard electric equipment
   + Дигностика electric elements
   - Illumination and the alarm system
      Removal and installation/check of a sound signal
      Remote control initialization
      Replacement of lamps накаливания external illumination
      Replacement of lamps накаливания internal illumination
      Removal and headlight installation
      Removal and installation of a ring cover of a headlight
      Removal and installation of the electric motor of adjustment of range of light
      Adjustment of headlights
      Gas-discharge lamps of a passing light (the xenon lamps)
      Removal and installation of a back lantern
   + Devices and the equipment
+ Electric equipment schemes




Replacement of lamps накаливания internal illumination

Forward plafond/lamp of illumination of reading

1 Hook a screw-driver and take out forward a plafond-1.

To facilitate removal and to exclude damages by a screw-driver, it is recommended at cars with сдвижной the roof panel at first to uncover the electric motor of a drive of the panel at a back edge-2.

2 Turn cartridges of lamps (an arrow on an illustration) counter-clockwise and take out from a plafond.


3 Take out a lamp from a cartridge.
4 Press into a cartridge a new lamp.
5 Insert a cartridge into a plafond and turn clockwise so that the cartridge was fixed.
6 Insert a plafond in the complete set and press it.

Back plafond/lamp of illumination of reading

Plafond of a luggage compartment

7 Cautiously wring out a small flat screw-driver рассеиватель a plafond. At рассеивателя there is an aperture into which the screw-driver is entered.


8 Take out damaged софитовую a lamp from contact plugs.
9 Insert a new lamp-spotlights.
10 At first put рассеиватель and then press it. It should be fixed distinctly.
11 Replacement of other lamps of internal illumination is made similarly. On illustrations are not shown: plafonds of the bottom illumination, a lamp of illumination of a ware box.