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Re: thermodynamics specialists? (archive)
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Posted by Mike W. on May 08, 2002 at 02:06:45:

In Reply to: thermodynamics specialists? posted by Tom Colitt on May 06, 2002 at 23:52:57:

The radiator should be hot and even pretty much everywhere. Cold spots indicate blockage, the water is flowing so slowly the air gets it very cool. A good two row radiator is adequite, but even in good shape all aren't created the same. I had a rebuilt one in my 80 633 that always ran cool, a rebuilt one in a Bavaria that sometimes heated up in town, but had fatter tubes and was cool in the desert with A/C and a 528i that was only so so with a brand new radiator both in town and on the highway.
Mike

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