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#1
11-25-2009, 05:15 PM
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My car took a pee pee yesterday.. :( pic
Heh, upper radiator hose decided to explode on me after a bout of acceleration. Luckily the dealer had my part and it is about the easiest hose you can ever change. Total time to change about 25 minutes including new coolant and bled. Why, why would BMW use plastic parts for a cooling system? Thank god it wasnt the bottom hose.. lol if you look way back you can see my trail of coolant around the building.
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11-25-2009, 05:25 PM
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Damn! I need to change that hose now... thank you for making me worried about something else in my car. lol.
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11-25-2009, 06:38 PM
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hahah, sounds like a good idea
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11-25-2009, 07:03 PM
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Just because it failed on someone else's car does not mean it's about to blow on your car. Wasted money imo.
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11-25-2009, 07:04 PM
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"Whenever I'm suffering from Insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I'm straight off." Last edited by crdiscoverer; 11-25-2009 at 07:13 PM..
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11-25-2009, 07:10 PM
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well...thats a common sight... lol
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#7
11-25-2009, 07:47 PM
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That happened to me, too. Though it was not the hose but the upper radiator neck breaking off.
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11-25-2009, 07:55 PM
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haha for real guy!
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11-25-2009, 07:58 PM
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Heres' another funny thing, do you think BMW coolant is any different then other coolant? The guys at the dealer were convincing me that it was, so I ended up doin it but i feel stupid paying 15 bucks for a jug of that crap.. 
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11-25-2009, 08:51 PM
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11-25-2009, 09:07 PM
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11-26-2009, 03:37 PM
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11-26-2009, 05:08 PM
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That's a different kind of clamp than I'm used to. My 98 540 has this instead...
 Still, it sounds like your radiator neck DID break off. Tell me if I am wrong, but part of the rad. neck snapped off. A common problem. You can temporarily fix it by clamping on to the existing part of the neck that remains, but it may just break off again. How old is the radiator? If you are even slightly unsure of the rad. replacement, I would recommend replacing with a new one.
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Last edited by jamesdc4; 11-26-2009 at 05:20 PM..
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11-26-2009, 05:21 PM
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the factory hoses are really thin. It worries me. I had a generic hose on my car before and it was easily 3x as thick as the oem hose. Unfortunately, I put my fan into it when the motor mount ripped in half. Amazingly, the fan didn't cut through the hose and everything was fine until I received the new hose... at which point I did a double take when I saw how thin the new hose was.
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11-26-2009, 05:59 PM
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I had the same problem, theres a plastic fitting that secures the hose to the neck. When I explained it to the shop on the phone while I waited for a tow they were not hopeful. They thought it was most likely the neck, and I was like "uhh, nah unless Im retarded..." And luckily they were wrong, cuz I had just had my radiator replaced!
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11-26-2009, 07:08 PM
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11-26-2009, 07:26 PM
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So it is a completely different kind of connector. Thanks.
Nice drawing, too. 
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11-26-2009, 09:53 PM
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11-27-2009, 02:24 AM
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11-29-2009, 04:05 PM
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