Hey guys/gals (?)
I had a buddy from Canada visiting over the weekend, I let him dive my 93 325is (only 72k miles), we were driving around Seattle, He has never driven a bimmer before, we were comming up on a right hand turn, he was in 2nd, for some reason he down shifted to 1st gear (at @ 20mph) the rpms shot up hella and it was redlined for @ 3 second, I was like Holly crap dude! what are you doin!!!
he said redline snuck up on him...... well not thinking anything about it, we pulled back into the garage, I wased my car, then jumped back on the freeway, after 5 minutes of driving my temp gauge shot up all the way, the check coolant light came on, no steam yet, I was on I-90 bridge with no exit for @ 1 mile, hit the exit, got off and stopped, (this is all @ 3am saturday night) engine did NOT die but there was steam comming from the hood, I popped it open and there was coolant everywhere! but the coolant res. was not fully empty... I had it towed home, the next day, I put some water in it and it started up fine.... Im hopeing it is a gasket of some sort... any clues? head gasket
? I am sad now, but my bicycle is getting use !
any ideas? thx all
-Ben![Mad [mad] [mad]](/images/smilies/mad.png)
I had a buddy from Canada visiting over the weekend, I let him dive my 93 325is (only 72k miles), we were driving around Seattle, He has never driven a bimmer before, we were comming up on a right hand turn, he was in 2nd, for some reason he down shifted to 1st gear (at @ 20mph) the rpms shot up hella and it was redlined for @ 3 second, I was like Holly crap dude! what are you doin!!!
he said redline snuck up on him...... well not thinking anything about it, we pulled back into the garage, I wased my car, then jumped back on the freeway, after 5 minutes of driving my temp gauge shot up all the way, the check coolant light came on, no steam yet, I was on I-90 bridge with no exit for @ 1 mile, hit the exit, got off and stopped, (this is all @ 3am saturday night) engine did NOT die but there was steam comming from the hood, I popped it open and there was coolant everywhere! but the coolant res. was not fully empty... I had it towed home, the next day, I put some water in it and it started up fine.... Im hopeing it is a gasket of some sort... any clues? head gasket
any ideas? thx all
-Ben
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