Overheating 535D ?
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Guys,
New to this forum but was recommended by a friend from BM3W in the UK.
I have one of the first 535d's to arrive in the UK ( Nov 04 ) and upon arriving home last night, got out of the car to smell either very hot plastics or metal coming from under the bonnet. The wife thought it was going to catch fire as the smell filled the house !
There was an uncharacteristic 'whooshing noise' preceeding this too.
Suspect the turbo's, anyone had any experience of blown turbos on these motors or anything similar to what I have experienced ?
Look forward to hearing from you
Regards
Yves
New to this forum but was recommended by a friend from BM3W in the UK.
I have one of the first 535d's to arrive in the UK ( Nov 04 ) and upon arriving home last night, got out of the car to smell either very hot plastics or metal coming from under the bonnet. The wife thought it was going to catch fire as the smell filled the house !
There was an uncharacteristic 'whooshing noise' preceeding this too.
Suspect the turbo's, anyone had any experience of blown turbos on these motors or anything similar to what I have experienced ?
Look forward to hearing from you
Regards
Yves
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Originally Posted by Yves D' date='Feb 23 2005, 02:26 PM
Guys,
New to this forum but was recommended by a friend from BM3W in the UK.
I have one of the first 535d's to arrive in the UK ( Nov 04 ) and upon arriving home last night, got out of the car to smell either very hot plastics or metal coming from under the bonnet. The wife thought it was going to catch fire as the smell filled the house !
There was an uncharacteristic 'whooshing noise' preceeding this too.
Suspect the turbo's, anyone had any experience of blown turbos on these motors or anything similar to what I have experienced ?
Look forward to hearing from you
Regards
Yves
New to this forum but was recommended by a friend from BM3W in the UK.
I have one of the first 535d's to arrive in the UK ( Nov 04 ) and upon arriving home last night, got out of the car to smell either very hot plastics or metal coming from under the bonnet. The wife thought it was going to catch fire as the smell filled the house !
There was an uncharacteristic 'whooshing noise' preceeding this too.
Suspect the turbo's, anyone had any experience of blown turbos on these motors or anything similar to what I have experienced ?
Look forward to hearing from you
Regards
Yves
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not seen any similar posts on here. if i were you i'd be straight off down the dealers to let the tech bods take a look, if anything has "fried" itself, should be easy enough for them to spot what is wrong or if it was simply the last remains of some kind of protective shipping coating (?) in the engine bay finally getting burnt off.
Good luck.
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I had the same problem, but did not notice any whooshing noise.
Strong burning smell
Happened two times and I too thought it was going to catch on fire. I doubt it's a failure of the engine because I did not lose any power nor did I have any smoke. I think it must be something in the engine burning in, because it hasn't happened in the last 2000 kms. This all occured in the initial 2-2500 kms.
Strong burning smell
Happened two times and I too thought it was going to catch on fire. I doubt it's a failure of the engine because I did not lose any power nor did I have any smoke. I think it must be something in the engine burning in, because it hasn't happened in the last 2000 kms. This all occured in the initial 2-2500 kms.
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Originally Posted by Rudy' date='Feb 23 2005, 08:33 AM
Here's another link that may help...
http://forums.e60.net/index.php?showtopic=3688
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Originally Posted by Rudy' date='Feb 23 2005, 10:47 AM
We all have our "foglights"...
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