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Originally Posted by Skyline
AFAIK, virtually every car with an automatic transmission has a cooler built into the radiator. What's a little different on the X5 is the thermostat gadget located down in front of the A/C compressor. If your tranny is running too hot, perhaps the transmission thermostat is bad and not allowing the tranny fluid to flow into the radiator?
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The 4.6is tranny fluid doesn't flow through the radiator, it has a separate tranny cooler. Click on the link, it's the big rectangular shaped block, part #11, called a heat exchanger.
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