car trouble question

HipLew said:
if it does it with a spare key, then the ignition switch is shotola. if spare key works, it's the key.........
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Yeah, I think it's done it with the spare key before. It does it on and off. Will this be a digressive pattern until it just doesn't work one day? Because it seems to have actually gotten better.
 
Exhaust work sucks!
for the electrical issue I recommend the battery maintainer charger.
If you have electricity handy for the vehicle.
 
uscitizen said:
Exhaust work sucks!
for the electrical issue I recommend the battery maintainer charger.
If you have electricity handy for the vehicle.
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yah but 800 for a third car? ugg no thanks. maybe i can find a discounter or something.
 
HipLew said:
none of the above; it's your electric radiator fan. since it only happens in traffic (stop/go) and ac blows warm, then that means no air is moving through the radiator/aC condensoer. moiving air is required to both cool the AC and radiator coolants.

eithet the fan is dea, the realy is dead. The overtemp and AC switches are probalby ok since one or the other should turn the fans on as required.

with your AC on, the fan on the radiator should ALWAYS be on, if not that's the problem.

Easy test is to run wires from battery to fan unplugged form normal wires. If fan runs, then the relay is shotola. if not, the fan is shotola.

piece of friggin cake....anyh more questions?
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UMM not a good idea, some of those fans can be fried by hooking up backwards....
Don't ask me how I know this....
 
There is a chance your battery problem is your alternator. Granted corrosion could have kept the charge from reaching the battery.
 
It was a valve on the radiator. The guys who replaced the radiator a few months ago fixed it for free, and they gave me a rental for two days while they did it!
 
Valve on the radiator ? I think only one there, a drain valve....

Maybe the thermostatic switch controlling the colling fan ?
 
Valve on the radiator? I'll have to check into BMW, but the only valve that I know of on a radiator drains the thing.
 
Jarod said:
It was a valve on the radiator. The guys who replaced the radiator a few months ago fixed it for free, and they gave me a rental for two days while they did it!
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Let's hear all the apologies from the lefties over mechanics just looking to take advantage of people for profit.
Businesses are interested in repeat customers, it's a big reason why you need so few regulations, because the market self-regulates.
 
They replaced the coolant and said it was a faulty valve. Whatever they did it seems to be fixed. They had to recharge the AC.
 
TheDanold said:
Let's hear all the apologies from the lefties over mechanics just looking to take advantage of people for profit.
Businesses are interested in repeat customers, it's a big reason why you need so few regulations, because the market self-regulates.
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I was suprised but they did not try to take advantage of me. I will continue to use these guy.
 
According to a page I found, there is a regulator valve on the circulation system at the radiator. Basically another thermostat....

I'm trying to figure out if it is temperature that changes aperture sizes, but it doesn't say it just calls it a "regulator valve".

There appear to be several in the BMW circulation system.
 
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