What's this little sucker?
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I noticed this on my new car that i collect today & after asking the question the dealer said he thought it was an external temp sensor. Reason i asked is that it's over twice the size on my car than the photo you've posted & the other E60's that were parked close by, so my guess is that the 535D M-Sport needs a larger one, although for the life of me i can't work that out. I'd hoped ot was a radar jammer or something. They do look a little overkill for a temp sensor, but if that's what they are then fine.
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Old sensors use to be inside the bumper blocked from wind... wonder why the E60s is right there in the air dam...
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Originally Posted by EBMCS03' post='231659' date='Jan 29 2006, 08:35 PM
Oh I jsut checked... I do have that little bugger! 
Maybe its a accelerometer!!!!
Maybe its a accelerometer!!!!
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If you look at the car from the front, it should be on the right side, under the radiator.
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Originally Posted by AC_S5' post='231801' date='Jan 30 2006, 12:01 AM
If you look at the car from the front, it should be on the right side, under the radiator.
Yup! Exactlly there...
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Originally Posted by tab545' post='231615' date='Jan 29 2006, 06:45 PM
The only sense in which wind chill matters to inanimate objects is that they will approach the true temperature more quickly. If a car is warm and parked at 0 degrees with no wind (like in a garage), it will not hit 0 degrees for quite a while, due to the buildup of layers of warm air immediately around the car; but if that warm car is parked at 0 degrees and a 50 mile per hour wind, it will approach 0 far more quickly.
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Originally Posted by EBMCS03' post='231771' date='Jan 30 2006, 12:19 AM
Old sensors use to be inside the bumper blocked from wind... wonder why the E60s is right there in the air dam...
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