1 Temperature! Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:40 am
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Hello everyone,
I'm new to the forum and to the K100. I have a K100 RS which unfortunately had to go in for a headgasket replacement soon after buying her. The mechanic (Daniel), with over 30 years working on post-war to modern BMW, told me the radiator cap was defective and the temperature sensor wasn't too healthy either. So after replacing all the parts the bike was handed back last Saturday.
My worry is that in urban traffic she seems to run very hot, and the the fan only comes on when almost in the red zone. Disturbed by this, I returned to the mechanic's yesterday and he informed me that his K100RT behaves in exactly the same way. On the highway there are no worries as there's enough airflow through the radiator. Daniel also recommended against fitting a manual switch for the fan.
My questions are:
Whether it is possible to fit a temperature sensor switch which will turn the fan on earlier?
Does anyone get false readings from their guages as the temp guage needle sometines wildly oscilates and fuel sudenly goes to zero with half a tank or less, even with a full tank it reads 3 quarters.
If a indicator LED could be fitted to light up when the fan is runningas I can't hear it when I have my crash helment on?
Does anyone else's K behave in the same way?
Many thanks in advance, besides these little idiosyncracies, the bike is fantastic....German engineering, quirky but solid. What makes matters worse is I thought I'd be used to these odd habits after having classic and youngtimer Mercedes-Benz for the last 7 and a bit years!
Thanks again, Martin
I'm new to the forum and to the K100. I have a K100 RS which unfortunately had to go in for a headgasket replacement soon after buying her. The mechanic (Daniel), with over 30 years working on post-war to modern BMW, told me the radiator cap was defective and the temperature sensor wasn't too healthy either. So after replacing all the parts the bike was handed back last Saturday.
My worry is that in urban traffic she seems to run very hot, and the the fan only comes on when almost in the red zone. Disturbed by this, I returned to the mechanic's yesterday and he informed me that his K100RT behaves in exactly the same way. On the highway there are no worries as there's enough airflow through the radiator. Daniel also recommended against fitting a manual switch for the fan.
My questions are:
Whether it is possible to fit a temperature sensor switch which will turn the fan on earlier?
Does anyone get false readings from their guages as the temp guage needle sometines wildly oscilates and fuel sudenly goes to zero with half a tank or less, even with a full tank it reads 3 quarters.
If a indicator LED could be fitted to light up when the fan is runningas I can't hear it when I have my crash helment on?
Does anyone else's K behave in the same way?
Many thanks in advance, besides these little idiosyncracies, the bike is fantastic....German engineering, quirky but solid. What makes matters worse is I thought I'd be used to these odd habits after having classic and youngtimer Mercedes-Benz for the last 7 and a bit years!
Thanks again, Martin