Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:12:46 -0800 From: Jim Powell Subject: Re: [uuc] 84 318i - hot initial warmup? Bleed the air out of it. Again. Install Water Wetter from Redline afterward. Jim Dave Bell wrote: > Here's the story - just replaced radiator, thermostat, hoses, and coolant. > (Radiator went, so decided to do everything else while I was there). Now, > when starting the car from cold, the engine warms up such that the > temperature gauge gets to about 75% (0% = cold, 100%=in the red), stays > there for 5 minutes, then normalizes back down to 50%. I thought it was a > bad thermostat, but my local shop says it checks out OK. Coolant level is > fine, as well.