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Old 04-12-2019, 12:02 PM
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The symptom you describe exactly matches my wife's car. If you get cabin heat only when moving the problem is your aux coolant pump.

The pump is a brushless DC motor and internal failure of electronic parts make it stop running.

The pump is right below the MAF.

You can likely kick start the pump with a mechanical tap; ideally in such a way that twists the motor a bit.


Healthy motor winding signal east-west.



Unhealthy signal north-south.

I took these readings off a failed aux pump. I didn't have enough time to determine which part had failed. The faulty signal interfered with the starting torque. I was able to make the mirror spin every time if I gave it a starting twist

I noticed that my X5 has good cabin heat when stopped also warms faster. I noticed some strange noise under wife's hood tracked to the aux pump that works only sometimes and vibrates bad when it does work.
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