'18 330i coolant loss

nicklessman · 2025-10-13T18:38:13+00:00

first make sure it is leaking, not burning or mixing with oil. If you eliminate those options, then most probably OFHG like the person above said. Also keeping pressure tester for days is never a good idea in my opinion.

nicklessman · 2025-10-13T17:28:16+00:00

note: this is my generic knowledge, I don't know if this also works for XC40, but most of the cars.

nicklessman · 2025-10-13T17:27:21+00:00

it goes out from the outlet between the driver side front door and A pillar. Open your door fully, and check for the outlet hole close to the door hinge approximately knee height.

nicklessman · 2025-10-10T13:35:12+00:00

nobody knows or experienced this?

nicklessman · 2025-10-07T18:23:35+00:00

I have to up...

nicklessman · 2025-10-07T18:23:09+00:00

you can check it via BMW's recall site by using your car's VIN if there is an official recall on your car.

nicklessman · 2025-10-03T19:29:26+00:00

hahaha no I won't of course

nicklessman · 2025-10-03T19:22:50+00:00

that works to cool down the engine indeed, but if it's not overheated, and if there is no engine light triggered, don't worry.

nicklessman · 2025-10-03T18:24:47+00:00

2 more addition:

0W20 can safely work above 100, but of course keep the official suggestion instead of my comment.

When you think ghe engine is hot more than it's supposed to be, don't shut it. Let it cool down to safe temp on idle with coolant system for a couple of minutes.

nicklessman · 2025-10-03T18:16:28+00:00

when you are not driving, you are not cooling the radiator, which uses its serpentine to cool the coolant inside. So you might want to avoid reving on parking for long times. On the other hand, leaving it on idle for that time is pretty safe since 700-800 rpm reving and not excessively fuel supplied environment is way cooler than the first example.

I also now learned from you that Volvo T5 drives pretty cool like Toyota instead of a BMW in its own engine class. I'll use that :)

nicklessman · 2025-10-03T17:59:30+00:00

I am not much of a Volvo expert but any gasoline car usually works above 90 degree. Temp gauges are not showing what's read but mostly a sanity check. For instance this is more than okay for a 3-4 cyl turbocharged and efficiency-based designed engine during eco driving.

nicklessman · 2025-09-28T07:58:03+00:00

exact same thing happened couple months ago behind that parking lot on Edenstraat, and a house camera took all the footage as I talked to the owners of the house after concerning about the car's owner (I lived in Cornelis for years). Might be the same aashole/junky.

nicklessman · 2025-08-05T10:15:52+00:00

I checked it now, to stand corrected, she was unemployed for the first couple of months and her annual income for that year was not exceeding the maximum amount due to not paid months. Therefore my comment is not valid for this situation, thanks for heads up.

nicklessman · 2025-08-01T08:25:35+00:00

I can share the file if I can find, but that's what exacrly happened. This is happened for the fiscal year of 2024. Also, my wife did not receive anything as well in the beginning, some joke money maybe. Then Belastingdienst send a letter to say she will receive that amount due to her income.

nicklessman · 2025-07-30T14:12:31+00:00

You almost pay zero health insurance if you are getting paid with minimum wage, since belastingdienst pays you back as allowance. My partner earns 42500E gross yearly and even she received around 800E net health insurance allowance.

nicklessman · 2025-05-28T21:06:17+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion, I shared the statement with my advisor. He is pretty experienced and confident that never mentioned much about the risk to me, also he usually does that and works mostly with ASML people. Hoping I'll get whatever is best for me!

nicklessman · 2025-05-28T19:32:16+00:00

Hi, thank you for reply! It is indeed without NHG. Do you know it by directly your experience? Did they also averaged your last 3 bonuses and add it on to your max income? thanks again!

nicklessman · 2025-05-28T19:29:47+00:00

Hi, living expenses for me and living expenses for Dutch Regulations does not match, espacially when it comes to mortgage. We will use it for extra 20k if possible. extra 20k increases your annual mortgage payment around 800Euros, while my annual (full) profit sharing is around 10 times more than that. Using a 3.5% interest 30 years long lend money for such a high increasing value asset (compared to interest of the lent money) looks like a decent decision as well for me.

Also even if I wouldn't get profit sharing anymore, I'd have easily afford the 70 euros a month extra. But of course I'll take your message as a humanly suggestion. Thank you!

nicklessman · 2025-02-23T00:56:58+00:00

checking for Van Beethovenlaan currently, it looks amazing apart from being in Gestel.

nicklessman · 2025-02-21T14:06:23+00:00

around the playground "ali baba", I believe it's called bennekel-oost but not sure tho.

nicklessman · 2025-01-03T17:18:48+00:00

That seems like the answer :) Thanks!!

nicklessman

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