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    Overheating

    Bought a car recently and on the drive home it had some overheating problems.

    I flushed the coolant system today and installed a new thermostat. I did the proper bleeding of the system with the heater on high until only fluid was coming from the bleed screw. Car has a new clutchfan, timing belt and waterpump too. On top of flushing/bleeding the system I also wired up the auxiliary to be constantly on. Any other things that could contribute to the car overheating? I've heard the possibility of a blown headgasket from reading other overheating threads (just hoping it isnt this)

    Also, I need to drive the car about 110 miles in a day so I just basically need it to make it that far and then it will be put down for a bit.
    Estoril E36 M3/4/5 | Toledo E53 X5 3.0 | LeMans E90 335D M-Sport


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    try replacing the radiator , but yeah if that doesn't work your head gasket is blown ,
    worst case is the your cylinder head is warp.
    Originally posted by E30_fiend
    You have more E30s than people in your household.


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      #3
      So I just drove home from my gf's house (20 miles) and the car overheated again. When I come to a stop I can see water leaking from the bottom of the car (I'm guessing some valve). Then I open up the overflow tank and I hear water (just put in H20 only today to flush it then filled it up) rushing/boiling up the line to the tank. Its kinda milky water now so I'm assuming that the head gasket is gone unfortunately.

      sigh
      Estoril E36 M3/4/5 | Toledo E53 X5 3.0 | LeMans E90 335D M-Sport

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