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Originally Posted by X5SND
As for the block heater....My X has the cold weather package, so it does have a block heater, and thus, no heating pad on the pan needed. I would assume there's a space for a block heater you could put in. It usually jsut requires removal of a plug on the side of the block and in goes the heater. A block heater is the sort of item you should bundle in with a cooling system flush/refresh as it's going to require at least some of the coolant be drained.
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Do you have a dealer-installed block heater? BMW doesn't recommend or offer them, and the cold weather package didn't include an immersion heater AFAIK. That is why some have gone to the stick-on silicon pad heaters. I have used them on larger engines, but never installed one on a BMW. All of my 3.0 engines were fine starting at -30C when I was travelling north of Vancouver, but I didn't have to do it day after day.
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07-22-2013, 11:59 PM
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