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Old Mar 22, 2003 | 07:38 PM
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BMW interior lighting question

Anyone been inside a BMW where they have the cool looking interior orange projected lights. They're on all the time with driving lights on and are relatively dim but give the cabin a good ambience. Do you think there is anything like that available for 5th gen max's?
Old Mar 22, 2003 | 09:25 PM
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Re: BMW interior lighting question

Originally posted by whiskeysaigon
Anyone been inside a BMW where they have the cool looking interior orange projected lights. They're on all the time with driving lights on and are relatively dim but give the cabin a good ambience. Do you think there is anything like that available for 5th gen max's?
I'm not sure what you are referring to (and actually the orange is one of the few things that I hate about BMWs) but if you are looking for ambience lighting I'm sure it can be achived with some well placed neon or LEDs.
Old Mar 23, 2003 | 12:14 AM
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Re: BMW interior lighting question

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Anyone been inside a BMW where they have the cool looking interior orange projected lights. They're on all the time with driving lights on and are relatively dim but give the cabin a good ambience. Do you think there is anything like that available for 5th gen max's?
do you mean the mood lighting under the mirror? you can do that by hooking up some LED's to your mirror.....since the search function doesn't work, i can't look for the thread that a guy did to his max....or was it his e36..
Old Mar 23, 2003 | 03:20 PM
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thanks for the response

yes, i believe it would be considered "mood" lighting under the mirror. How does one go about it? Unfortunately i love driving my max but i'm not so good at installing stuff. Would it be hard and does anyone know how to do it? Thanks in advance
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My Dad's car has it. They have low output led's underneath the door handles, mirror, and footwells. I like it alot, but I would probably try a blue color. You barely notice it, I would also put it on the a and c pillar's base, check out the front of Kev's car. He had a video of it at start up and a blue led flashed on the front of his car. Just make sure it is really faint, because you don't want it to be a distraction.
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