My 535 has left me stranded...
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2009 535i 52k miles.
I'll try to make it quick, mostly looking for opinions from you guys. Was driving two nights ago and iDrive msg: Engine running hot please drive moderately! The message was gone after 20 seconds, so I was like ok that's weird, I don't have any check engine or anything. Next morning same message appears, keep driving waiting for the message to go away and is not going away so in a red light I try tuning off the car, when turning it back on I see coolant smoke coming out of the hood and a sound like something broke/blew inside so I turn it back off again and say to myself: shit shit shit shit.
Anyway, dealer called me today and said my fan broke and that was the sound I heard and that's why the car was getting hot.
Thing is, they replaced my water pump, hoses, turbos, and gasket less than 2 months ago and I would hear the fans going crazy even when the ac was on low. I'm in Miami so it has been about perfect weather lately.. how can the fan just break? They told me I was getting a 75% discount on the fan because the milage and some bs I don't believe so I'll end up paying only $470 (they said it was almost.. wait for it.. $1500).
What do you guys think?
I'll try to make it quick, mostly looking for opinions from you guys. Was driving two nights ago and iDrive msg: Engine running hot please drive moderately! The message was gone after 20 seconds, so I was like ok that's weird, I don't have any check engine or anything. Next morning same message appears, keep driving waiting for the message to go away and is not going away so in a red light I try tuning off the car, when turning it back on I see coolant smoke coming out of the hood and a sound like something broke/blew inside so I turn it back off again and say to myself: shit shit shit shit.
Anyway, dealer called me today and said my fan broke and that was the sound I heard and that's why the car was getting hot.
Thing is, they replaced my water pump, hoses, turbos, and gasket less than 2 months ago and I would hear the fans going crazy even when the ac was on low. I'm in Miami so it has been about perfect weather lately.. how can the fan just break? They told me I was getting a 75% discount on the fan because the milage and some bs I don't believe so I'll end up paying only $470 (they said it was almost.. wait for it.. $1500).
What do you guys think?
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What does fan broke mean? Did one of the fan blades break off? If that was it, they may have done it. If it means the fan motor burned out, I'm not so sure they had anything to do with it.
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Almost all of them are not honest and jack up cost then give you a discount... $1200.00 quote for my 535 valve cover gasket with a discount! I laughed...
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Was the fan running very high when you first got overheat indication? If so that strikes me like bad water pump even if it's new. The car should have gone into limp mode. Was the expansion tank empty? Where was the smoke coming from?
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If your car is like my 530i (likely is), the fan blade, shroud, motor, etc are all serviced as a singular unit. So if any of those parts failed (usually the motor craps out), you get a complete assembly.
1-$470 is pretty reasonable, but at the upper end of the 'reasonable' spectrum. $1500 is a joke. seriously. that's robbery.
2- any part on any car can fail at any time. it's likely coincidence.
3-i'm in FL too. at least this didn't happen in july...![Smile](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/smile.gif)
4-dont take your car to the dealer unless you absolutely have to. they are insanely expensive compared to a competent independent.
5-motortrend.com is showing that a small number of '09s had a recall for the fan assembly. don't know any more than that, or if there's any truth to it. i'd ask.
1-$470 is pretty reasonable, but at the upper end of the 'reasonable' spectrum. $1500 is a joke. seriously. that's robbery.
2- any part on any car can fail at any time. it's likely coincidence.
3-i'm in FL too. at least this didn't happen in july...
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4-dont take your car to the dealer unless you absolutely have to. they are insanely expensive compared to a competent independent.
5-motortrend.com is showing that a small number of '09s had a recall for the fan assembly. don't know any more than that, or if there's any truth to it. i'd ask.
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I was thinking the same, I was thinking it was the water pump from reading around the forums.
If your car is like my 530i (likely is), the fan blade, shroud, motor, etc are all serviced as a singular unit. So if any of those parts failed (usually the motor craps out), you get a complete assembly.
1-$470 is pretty reasonable, but at the upper end of the 'reasonable' spectrum. $1500 is a joke. seriously. that's robbery.
2- any part on any car can fail at any time. it's likely coincidence.
3-i'm in FL too. at least this didn't happen in july...![Smile](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/smile.gif)
4-dont take your car to the dealer unless you absolutely have to. they are insanely expensive compared to a competent independent.
5-motortrend.com is showing that a small number of '09s had a recall for the fan assembly. don't know any more than that, or if there's any truth to it. i'd ask.
1-$470 is pretty reasonable, but at the upper end of the 'reasonable' spectrum. $1500 is a joke. seriously. that's robbery.
2- any part on any car can fail at any time. it's likely coincidence.
3-i'm in FL too. at least this didn't happen in july...
![Smile](https://5series.net/forums/images/smilies/imported/smile.gif)
4-dont take your car to the dealer unless you absolutely have to. they are insanely expensive compared to a competent independent.
5-motortrend.com is showing that a small number of '09s had a recall for the fan assembly. don't know any more than that, or if there's any truth to it. i'd ask.
2- True
3- True haha and luckily I had a bar next to where all this happened so I left my car there and had a few beers til the tow truck came.
4- I know, it's just that since they did all this work on the water pump etc. about two months ago I was going to make them pay for it.
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