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02-13-2017, 11:36 PM | #1 |
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How do you keep the ignition on
I'm trying to bleed my coolant system but my car keeps shutting off! How do you keep it on? 2011 335i xdrive n55
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02-14-2017, 02:35 AM | #3 |
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Are you using the coolant purge procedure in which the
electric water pump is turned on for 10 minutes ? Maybe your battery is to depleted to run for that amount of time. Try putting a full charge on the battery . |
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02-14-2017, 03:35 AM | #4 |
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I have a battery charger hooked up waited about 3 hours till i checked the needle and it was at 100% at that time i tried the purge procedure again and the ignition still cut out. looked at the needle and it went down to 25% maybe its the charger im using? what chargers do you guys have?
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02-14-2017, 10:56 PM | #5 |
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Need to keep a door open or it goes to sleep?
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02-15-2017, 03:57 AM | #6 |
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Why do this bleeding procedure. It's a self bleeding system. Or does the electric water pump live its own life going on and off when you drive the car?
Start the car and let it run on idle with cap to the expansion tank off. Look at the stream in the expansion tank you will see a clear stream just after a few minutes. |
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02-15-2017, 04:48 AM | #7 | |
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OP. Fill the system with coolant until the bleed screw bubbles stop. Close the coolant reservoir cap and bleed screw. Insert the key fob into the dash slot. Keep your foot off the brake pedal and push the start button, the car now is in ignition mode. Turn the heater fan to low and set the temperature dials to max (84 deg. F). Hold the gas pedal down for 10 seconds and release. The water pump will run for 12 minutes and then stop. Top off the coolant as necessary once it bleeds. You absolutely don't need to use a supplemental 12V power source for the bleeding procedure. The battery if fully charged has enough reserve power to run the pump for 12 minutes. However, just for good measure, what I do is take a spare battery and jump it to the terminals under the hood. If you have some type of charger on the battery terminals in the trunk, the IBS may be turning off the system.
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02-15-2017, 07:29 AM | #8 | |
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Probably since coolant expands when hot and overflows back into the expansion tank. |
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02-15-2017, 09:03 AM | #10 |
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just my thoughts on the battery....when folks code their cars, they use a very expensive power supply that is capable of often 70A of clean power, this is not the same as a $80 battery charger....the reason is the battery charger's voltage will spike as the car demands more amperage. With this being said, I have never bled my cooling, and when I did the ABL procedure on the DSC Hydro pump, I simply did it on my battery with nothing hooked up to it. I figured if it died, then I would have to start all over, or buy an expensive power supply, or even have another car running and hook up boosters...
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02-16-2017, 05:28 AM | #12 | |
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A lot of cars use coolant "expansion" tanks to catch coolant from the system as it expands and over-pressurizes the system. So those expansion tanks really only hold cold coolant and are not pressurized, and they don't feed coolant back into the system. In those systems the radiator holds all the cooling system coolant and the expansion tank is there only to catch an overflow of coolant if the system overheats and over pressurizes. An expansion tank can be opened with the engine running and the cooling system at normal operating temperature. On the E9X system, as anyone who has experienced a dead water pump knows, if the cooling system overheats and over pressurizes, the coolant reservoir discharges coolant into the engine bay and makes a mess. If you look closely at the design of the cap and filler neck you'll see where the cap is designed to release hot coolant into a channel around the filler neck under the lip of the cap.
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04-05-2020, 09:51 PM | #14 |
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Lol old thread but I thought I would update it. A member from Facebook said it had to do with my door being open or closed and that ended up being the solution lol
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