has my heater broke or is it worse??

[mattster]

I fired up my 318i tourer the other day...its been sat for a while but will be taxing it shortly, it started fine and had plenty of fuel in so i thought i'd live it runnin for a bit as i had a tidy round the drive. i walked pass to see the windows all steamed up so quickly turned the engine off. there way loads of water in the passeger footwell!! and the temp gauge was will up, my neighboor sugested it was the heater box and that disconectin the two pipes in to it and looping the together as the removing the heater for the system may sort it, i did this with some copper pipe but it still over heats...any clues or has the head gone? many thanks Matt

[magpie]

have you bled the coolant properly?

[Adil786]

hmm, could there be air-lock still in the system?

[Banjo1981]

Sound's like what I had not long ago.

You need to replace the heater valve on the heater matrix.

Have a look here:

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... c&start=25

It's a fairly straight forward fix tbf, just a bit fiddley in parts.

Good luck!

[Brianmoooore]

Another case of someone ignoring the coolant cap recall?

[Alex]

Another case of someone ignoring the coolant cap recall?

Or a case where one doesnt know about the coolant cap being a recall

[Brianmoooore]

Another case of someone ignoring the coolant cap recall?

Or a case where one doesnt know about the coolant cap being a recall

It was very widely publicised at the time.

[e30topless]

the coolant cap recall was over 10 years ago IIRC, I doubt it has made it this far without a replacement !

[Barx325i]

I was only aware a few months back

[Brianmoooore]

the coolant cap recall was over 10 years ago IIRC, I doubt it has made it this far without a replacement !

About half I see still have the old cap!

[Alex]

Ive got a recall "certificate" with mine

[Barx325i]

mine was swiftly replaced, and the spares binned! I always wondered why some were yellow lol