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ST
09-25-2006, 04:34 PM
first the e46's m3 issues now this:

http://forums.audiworld.com/lrqc/msgs/84866.phtml



"Now, the bad news:

Each and every car overheated and shut down. Hmmmm, how's that? Yup! The oil temperature on every car shot to 300 degrees and the cars shut down. We learned that early on and instructed every driver to watch it closely. Driving amounted to about 5 hot laps, 2 parade laps, and so on. Never saw anything like it yet. Talk about a fatal flaw on these vehicles. Can't wait to see this happen to the general public and see how BMW responds. I guarantee you we were not pushing these so hard that no one will ever experience what we did. In fact, one of the ABCC members took a car home with him and on his ride in to the track, aggressively I might add, overheated it and shut down on him.

Every car has an achille's heal. I guess this is it."


ouch..

dohcvtec
09-25-2006, 08:24 PM
just put a huge oil cooler on it, problem solved :P

RgistRdShowoffIX
09-25-2006, 08:40 PM
lol that's after forking over the money for the new car. ;)

MarkSAE
09-25-2006, 09:18 PM
Geez.. I can't believe BMW released this "ultimate driving machine"!

ez76
09-25-2006, 09:21 PM
Shiv's got one. Knowing how he drives, if this is a real issue on the street, we'll hear more about it :-)

MadEvo
09-25-2006, 09:34 PM
Shiv's got one. Knowing how he drives, if this is a real issue on the street, we'll hear more about it :-)


Hmmm.. Interesting. He does drive the evos pretty hard.

KareBearPowa
09-25-2006, 09:37 PM
300F? wow.

ZK
09-25-2006, 10:08 PM
Seeing where those turbos are mounted, it doesn't look like a very good place to keep cool.

Lurk
09-25-2006, 10:19 PM
You mean you guys didn't know that BMW uses their customers as R&D? I would never buy a BMW the first year it comes out. Although I have to say, my E39 M5 has been nothing but reliable.

redvolution
09-26-2006, 08:19 AM
http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/09/22/dynamometer-bmw-335i-continues-to-impress/

I wonder if BMW will cut the boost to keep them cooler.