It's Dead, Jim ('01 3.0i)

[andrewwynn]

Nice to see follow up.

Wife's engine hit the red very hard when her coolant reservoir blew. I had her drive less than three blocks to a parking lot where I could assess the damage. Temps were in the range of 240 ten minutes after shutdown but no bad mojo came of it.

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I've driven n52 motor with non working coolant pump and n55 with an intermittent pump (these are both electric). Watching the temps all the time and they will go into warning like 240f and into engine will only idle about 250-255. I've had each of those hit the limit (for on the order of 1-2 minutes "in the red") and they survived. I think the m54 overheat program is engineered to save the motor and does the job.