BMW 5 Series E39

since 1996-2001 release

Repair and operation of the car



BMW E39
+ Introduction
+ Maintenance instruction
+ Current leaving and service
+ Engine
+ Cooling systems, heating
+ Power supply system and release
+ Engine electric equipment
+ Manual transmission
+ Automatic transmission
+ Coupling and power shafts
+ Brake system
+ Suspension bracket and steering
+ Body
- Onboard electric equipment
   Diagnostics of malfunctions of onboard electric equipment - the general information
   Safety locks
   Fusible inserts
   Chain breakers (thermal relays)
   Relay
   Check of the relay
   Check of glow lamps
   Check of electric motors
   Check of electric switches
   Check of switches of lamps and electric motors
   Check of sensors
   Check of the electric motor of a screen wiper
   Check of a stoplight
   Check of a heater of back glass
   Removal and installation of the switch
   Removal and installation of the sensor of temperature
   Removal, installation and check of a sound signal
   Initialization of remote control of the uniform lock
   Adjustment of range of light of headlights
   Removal and installation of the electric motor of adjustment of range of light
   Replacement of safety locks
   Arrangement of safety locks
   Lighting devices
   Replacement of glow lamps
   Removal and installation of a headlight
   Adjustment of headlights
   Removal and installation of a back lamp
   Monitors
   Removal and installation of the block of the dashboard
   Replacement of lamps of the block of the dashboard
   Removal and installation of the switch of signals of a turn/screen wiper
   Removal and installation of the radio receiver
   Screen wiper
   Replacement of brushes of a screen wiper
   Removal, installation and adjustment snuffled windscreen washer
   Removal and installation of the drive of a screen wiper/cover
   Removal and installation of the electric motor of a screen wiper
   Check and replacement of the pump of windscreen washer
   Work with electric circuits
+ Schemes of electric equipment
+ System of onboard diagnostics




Check of glow lamps

 CHECK

1. Remove a lamp and check it visually. If filament of a lamp fused or the glass flask unsteadily sits in a socle, replace a lamp.
2. For exact check of serviceability of a lamp it is necessary to do the following:
Attach a lamp directly to the rechargeable battery. Respect for polarity in this case is optional. Attach one wire to the feeding contact of a lamp, another to the lamp case. If the lamp does not light up, it needs to be replaced. It is necessary to check also whether there are no corrosion traces on the lamp case. In the presence of a rust smooth out it a skin.
3. If the lamp is serviceable, insert it into a cartridge and include. If the lamp does not light up, check food a control lamp. For this purpose attach a control lamp to weight. Accession is carried out as follows. One wire of a control lamp joins a weight point on the engine (the smoothed-out metal) or directly a negative pole of the rechargeable battery. Other end of a control lamp (+) joins or the current carrying plug or is stuck in a current carrying cable. If now the control lamp lights up, and the checked lamp does not burn, there is a break in a weight wire to a lamp. For check apply a weight wire to the boss of a lamp. Now the lamp has to light up.
4. If tension in a current carrying cable to a lamp is not present and the control lamp does not light up, damage of the switch is probable. Check the switch.
5. Otherwise check the lamp module.