sounds like my car... high 80's to low 90's (Celsius) when stuck in traffic, high 70's to low 80's on the freeway.
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sounds like my car... high 80's to low 90's (Celsius) when stuck in traffic, high 70's to low 80's on the freeway.
Oli77: 96
Dane: 95
Telijah: 88
edlvrt: 96
MrMaico: 97
Spencers: 90
Livesnearcostco: 91
derbo: 95
GT172I: 96
shanneba: 89
Hochspannung: 87
Kayger12: 95
RITmusic2k: 83 (?)
I'd say you can change mine to 96C Oli. It's been that temp (205F) about 75 or 80% of the time since I got my Garmin EcoRoute OBDII Bluetooth setup about a year ago. Not sure why it was reading 97C that weekend I posted mine. Low outside air temps, down to upper 20's F anyway, don't drop the coolant temp at all. Never had it out in any colder weather. The only time it changes is if I'm running harder than normal and it drops 10 to 15 degrees F or if it's hot out (upper 80's or so OAT) with the a/c on. Then I've seen a max of 212F (100C).
Good idea starting the thread Oli. It's been both interesting and educational.
Barry
Thanks bud, I've been playing around with that thing for a while too. It's pretty dynamic and fun +, as you say, I learned a lot of stuff.
Just wish we had more input, we could get some cool graphics on the population of Mafiosis driving E46s. We could also find out about when or if the T-stats, water pumps, were changed etc...
Numbers are in Celsius once reached a plateau.
Oli77: 96
Dane: 95
Telijah: 88
edlvrt: 96
MrMaico: 96
Spencers: 90
Livesnearcostco: 91
derbo: 95
GT172I: 96
shanneba: 89
Hochspannung: 87
Kayger12: 95
RITmusic2k: 83 (sounds about right boss?)
Four out of 14 are below 90, the rest are above.
I feel that the DME such as MS43 vs. MS45.1 should be noted along with operating temp.
For example Spencer is running MS43 on Euro3 specs and Travis is running Stock MS43 both early models.
I know for a fact that MS45.1 was introduced to reduce emissions so the operating temp could be higher just for that fact in all DMEs produced after 09/2003.
I agree but are their numbers much different? Sorry don't know Travis' username (my bad).
For a valid comparison of values, though, we should all be reading the same way, through OBC. The DME that you speak of resides in the OBC?
Travis is Telijah.
The DME is the engine management system, and it varied throughout e46 production.
99-00 323/328 run Siemens MS42 DME
01-03 325/330 excl. ZHP run Siemens MS43 DME
03-06 325/330 incl. ZHP run Siemens MS45.1 DME.
I'm running Euro2 on MS42 so I'm interested to see what my OpTemp is.
Yep, 'bout right. I hate being an outlier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oli77
Just started thermostat replacement process. Hopefully have updated OBC temps in a few hours.
Usually 82 (M3)
My old ZHP ran at 95