Useful tip posted on the Z3NE facebook site. Yried it and it works.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/1195093470524036?view=permalink&id=2019661308067244
https://m.facebook.com/groups/1195093470524036?view=permalink&id=2019661308067244
Z3 window close tip
- Thread starter roadvoyager1
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Apparently only useful if you have a Faceache account !!!! 
Davyhoogy
Zorg Guru (III)
Apparently only useful if you have a Faceache account !!!!
Thank you Mr Hoogy, I will have to go out the garage now and try it 
Davyhoogy
Zorg Guru (III)
Does it work for going down too?Thank you Mr Hoogy, I will have to go out the garage now and try it
It works 
...........but only for going up
You also have to hold the key to the left until it reaches the top.
...........but only for going upYou also have to hold the key to the left until it reaches the top.
It's in the handbook afaik. Also, if you unlock the car with the key without the remote - in the hole as per the old days - the alarm will go off unless you put the key in the ignition within a certain time.
Apologies. I didn't want to steal the glory for this tip and thought linking to the FB page would give credit where it belonged. Thankfully "Mr. Hoggy" sorted it out for me and put the screen shot in - Thanks Davy.Apparently only useful if you have a Faceache account !!!!
@roadvoyager1 no apologies required.
Not being on FB, means I couldn’t open the link to see what the tip was. So my comment was meant to be tongue in cheek.
Good tip by the way !!!
Not being on FB, means I couldn’t open the link to see what the tip was. So my comment was meant to be tongue in cheek.
Good tip by the way !!!
Amazing, I didn't know the hole in the handle had any use at all! I thought the big metal part on the key was the antenna!
How clever of BMW to have a dual use remote antenna like that!
How clever of BMW to have a dual use remote antenna like that!
antodeco
Zorg Addict
Fantastic! Tried it today and worked a treat!
Did you all know that your indicator stalk has a second step for parking lights
anyone found that if you rotate the big wheel in front of the seat, that the car can go around corners?
Unlike the above, its not actually in the handbook......
RTFM people.
Unlike the above, its not actually in the handbook......
RTFM people.
It is in the handbook, page 34. Whilst I doread the handbook to find info on bits I don't know about, I have never looked at how to operate electric windows. Press button - they go down, press other end of button - they go up.
Perhaps there are many more hidden secrets in the handbook. Holiday reading sorted.
Perhaps there are many more hidden secrets in the handbook. Holiday reading sorted.
Doesn't work for my Z3 (early 97 model).
Could be a later introduction, mine is Feb. 1999. Did you hold the key in the lock position for about 5 seconds? It took longer than I expected.Doesn't work for my Z3 (early 97 model).
Yes, am familiar with this on our E36 convertible (if you do same it also lowers/raises the fully auto roof). Think it was added to later cars. Believe there was an early Z3 "facelift" in mid/late 1997 that also added ASC/added front bumper marker sidelights/maybe other things such as this auto window close. Things seem to be more complicated as models progress, and more to go wrong of course.
remember this used to work on my cavalier cdi in the day hold the key to the right and all windows will close yet to try on my 1998 z3 1.9 mine has a remote keyfob unlock thing on the key i believe earlier models didnt have the electronic locking feature.. mine is august 1998