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Old 02-10-2006, 03:59 AM
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Originally Posted by sailor15015
I would also say replace the temp sender. I went through a horrific ordeal trying to replace the t-stat on my bimmer because I thought it was running too cool. After replacing the t-stat and no change I picked up a new temp sender and it turns out it was running at the right temp the whole time, with the old t-stat.
Seth is right. On the 91 300e I chased what I thought was a running too cool problem for several months. It turned out to be a faulty temperature sending unit. The car had been running at the proper temperature the entire time, the sending unit reported too cool.

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