Does the VANOS recall repair involve removing / draining any coolant?

bman5150 · 02-22-2015, 11:17 PM

I was taking a hard left turn for several floors around an airport parking garage and got my first ever "low coolant" warning. I had the VANOS recall performed a few months ago and now I'm just wondering if they would have possibly had to remove a coolant hose in order to complete the repair. I'll just add a little bit of coolant to get the level up and monitor but I find the timing odd. But I wouldn't expect that they had to remove any coolant hose for this recall repair so it doesn't make sense to me.

FriedPiston · 02-22-2015, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by bman5150

I was taking a hard left turn for several floors around an airport parking garage and got my first ever "low coolant" warning. I had the VANOS recall performed a few months ago and now I'm just wondering if they would have possibly had to remove a coolant hose in order to complete the repair. I'll just add a little bit of coolant to get the level up and monitor but I find the timing odd. But I wouldn't expect that they had to remove any coolant hose for this recall repair so it doesn't make sense to me.

Not sure, but when I had mine done, the tech who worked on it cracked my coolant reservoir (coolant expansion tank) and had to come back to get it replaced.

Efthreeoh · 02-23-2015, 05:46 AM

Work on the VANOS wouldn't involve the coolant. Cars lose coolant as a natural course of using them. Just top it off and don't worry about it.

UncleWede · 02-23-2015, 10:36 AM

OR quit driving in circles so much

You could have caused the warning just thru the centripidal (is that right?) force of going left.

Three_thirty_I · 02-23-2015, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by UncleWede

OR quit driving in circles so much

You could have caused the warning just thru the centripidal (is that right?) force of going left.

Also hate these situations just from the point that you tend to wear the shoulders of the outer front tyre (depending on which way you are turning) quite badly - these low speed sharp turns. But yes, all the fluids are then being forced to one side.

DANE53331 · 02-24-2015, 10:03 PM

No need to drain coolant for the Vanos Recall.

bman5150 · 02-25-2015, 09:52 AM

Turns out it was only a little low. Dealer topped it off for free which was cool. The SA said "they all do that" speculating it was just a little evaporation over time especially if you don't see any coolant on the ground or evidence of a leak in tr engine bay (which I do not.)

02-22-2015, 11:17 PM	#1
bman5150 Second Lieutenant 48 Rep 290 Posts Drives: 2011 BMW 335i M-Sport (sold) Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: C-Bus, OH iTrader: (0)	Does the VANOS recall repair involve removing / draining any coolant? I was taking a hard left turn for several floors around an airport parking garage and got my first ever "low coolant" warning. I had the VANOS recall performed a few months ago and now I'm just wondering if they would have possibly had to remove a coolant hose in order to complete the repair. I'll just add a little bit of coolant to get the level up and monitor but I find the timing odd. But I wouldn't expect that they had to remove any coolant hose for this recall repair so it doesn't make sense to me. __________________ 2011 BMW 335i XDrive Msport (auto)
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02-23-2015, 05:46 AM	#3
Efthreeoh General 19912 Rep 19,255 Posts Drives: The E90 + Z4 Coupe & Z3 R'ster Join Date: May 2012 Location: Verginny iTrader: (0)	Work on the VANOS wouldn't involve the coolant. Cars lose coolant as a natural course of using them. Just top it off and don't worry about it. __________________ A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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UncleWede Long Time Admirer, First Time Owner 18673 Rep 9,445 Posts Drives: G01 X3 M40i Dark Graphite Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Oxnard, CA iTrader: (0)	OR quit driving in circles so much You could have caused the warning just thru the centripidal (is that right?) force of going left.
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02-24-2015, 10:03 PM	#6
DANE53331 New Member 2 Rep 18 Posts Drives: 2011 335i Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Texas iTrader: (0)	No need to drain coolant for the Vanos Recall.
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02-25-2015, 09:52 AM	#7
bman5150 Second Lieutenant 48 Rep 290 Posts Drives: 2011 BMW 335i M-Sport (sold) Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: C-Bus, OH iTrader: (0)	Turns out it was only a little low. Dealer topped it off for free which was cool. The SA said "they all do that" speculating it was just a little evaporation over time especially if you don't see any coolant on the ground or evidence of a leak in tr engine bay (which I do not.)
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