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Help Needed! Overheating of e36 318i
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<blockquote data-quote="Azrylr" data-source="post: 422842" data-attributes="member: 20106"><p>My questions:</p><p>1) </p><p>No, nothing to do with alternator when you experience over heating. Your engine overheating problem is due to loss of coolant in the radiator. Even though you have filled the radiator, it does not mean that there is water. when there is a leak, the water loss can be sudden. Your engine will overheat. This will caused your gasket to be "blown" and loss of compression. Engine power will be "reduced" and finally the engine will stalled. </p><p><span style="color: deepskyblue">- yes i do agree it doesnt relates to each other between alternator and overheating but i was thinking alternator might be one of the possiblities</span>.</p><p></p><p></p><p>2) </p><p>ECU does not cut out the engine when temperature goes to the red zone. The Temperature indicator will tell the driver what to do. It very unfortunate that the meter is not working. This is the most important thing to have. </p><p><span style="color: deepskyblue">- oic; ECU wont cut off, bcos i heard a story from a BMW user this symptoms of cut off can be happen to BMW car</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>4) </p><p>If it going to the 2nd time, better change engine lar. Engine is about 1.2K to 1.8K depends on condition. With labour cost, it will be around 2.8K. New heart is always better.:rock:</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">- agree with u.. swap with a new engine will make the car breathe better..but since i was from a background of Japanese car i will rather go for RB or 1jz since if i topup a bit i can sattle the underpower problems of 318. And somemore i felt RM2.8k for replacing the stock engine or do top overhaul, its not worth it..It will be a different story if i manage to do the top oerhaul that will cost me lesser than 1.5k, i will rebuilt back the engine..and i feels that 2.8k is really a lot of money whereby my previous car, Levin 4AGE engine lantai only cost below than rm600..maybe i'm too young and unmatured to play BMW yet since i feels that the price gap between Japan and Continental car is really big.. :20:</span></p><p></p><p>So as a conclusion; definately either swapping the engine/ top overhaul need to be done, is there any 318 engine for sale?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Azrylr, post: 422842, member: 20106"] My questions: 1) No, nothing to do with alternator when you experience over heating. Your engine overheating problem is due to loss of coolant in the radiator. Even though you have filled the radiator, it does not mean that there is water. when there is a leak, the water loss can be sudden. Your engine will overheat. This will caused your gasket to be "blown" and loss of compression. Engine power will be "reduced" and finally the engine will stalled. [COLOR="deepskyblue"]- yes i do agree it doesnt relates to each other between alternator and overheating but i was thinking alternator might be one of the possiblities[/COLOR]. 2) ECU does not cut out the engine when temperature goes to the red zone. The Temperature indicator will tell the driver what to do. It very unfortunate that the meter is not working. This is the most important thing to have. [COLOR="deepskyblue"]- oic; ECU wont cut off, bcos i heard a story from a BMW user this symptoms of cut off can be happen to BMW car[/COLOR] 4) If it going to the 2nd time, better change engine lar. Engine is about 1.2K to 1.8K depends on condition. With labour cost, it will be around 2.8K. New heart is always better.:rock: [COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]- agree with u.. swap with a new engine will make the car breathe better..but since i was from a background of Japanese car i will rather go for RB or 1jz since if i topup a bit i can sattle the underpower problems of 318. And somemore i felt RM2.8k for replacing the stock engine or do top overhaul, its not worth it..It will be a different story if i manage to do the top oerhaul that will cost me lesser than 1.5k, i will rebuilt back the engine..and i feels that 2.8k is really a lot of money whereby my previous car, Levin 4AGE engine lantai only cost below than rm600..maybe i'm too young and unmatured to play BMW yet since i feels that the price gap between Japan and Continental car is really big.. :20:[/COLOR] So as a conclusion; definately either swapping the engine/ top overhaul need to be done, is there any 318 engine for sale? [/QUOTE]
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