Thread: What did you do to / for your E53 today??
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Old 08-15-2021, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Overboost View Post
What's odd is my idle is 700 and the temp would creep up to 103C within 1 min or so sitting at a light or stopped. If I gave it a little throttle to 1000 RPM, the temps would come back immediately to normal 95C. Makes me think the pump and thermostat is my next approach now.

When I had the aux fan out yesterday, I did have a look at the radiator fins and aside from a few bugs, it looked fine.

Should be the water pump hoping the impeller isn't shattered.

Any chance you have air in your coolant causing loss of efficiency?

(You would notice loss of heating also)
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