View Poll Results: What oil cooler protection did you go with? | |||
Mishimoto Skid Plate | 43 | 25.90% | |
Turner Motorsport Skid Plate | 5 | 3.01% | |
ZunSport Oil Cooler Grille | 46 | 27.71% | |
Unlisted Brand | 6 | 3.61% | |
DIY Protection | 10 | 6.02% | |
Can't feel anything with protection, I'm raw doggin' it! | 56 | 33.73% | |
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01-05-2024, 02:01 PM | #23 | |
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To be fair I ordered mine in November after seeing how vulnerable this part of the car was. I bought the Southeast Coating & Fab Oil cooler skid plate. For $350 you cant go wrong. DM me if you want me to connect you! |
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01-05-2024, 08:19 PM | #25 | |
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Another scenario is I drive from Dallas to Austin & back every weekend. The only reasonable route is I35, which is basically a junk yard of road debris. My 330e was hit by tire tread that caused $4k in damage. I also went through 3 front splitters over the course of 15 months due to being hit by or running over road debris. So while some will scoff at the possibility of anything happening to their vehicle and the cost or practicality of these guards/screens, a little protection could go a long way for others.
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I am just thinking that based on physics, if you drop something that bounce, at the most with perfect elasticity and no air friction, it could only bounce back up to the same spot at the most.
The more elastic the object is, the less damage it could do to the cooler. That means to hit the oil cooler, the starting drop has to be higher than bottom of the cooler. Only scenario I could think of is something hard dropped from real high and then the M2 quickly drive over it at the exact window for the object to be able to make it under the car and bounce it to hit the cooler. So I think to reduce the chance of that, we can drive real slow (consider this damage can't happen to a stopped car). But again, I am no physics phD. (I am gonna ask people at my work since a lot of them have their phD in physics). |
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Did you mean the turbulence from the car in front or your own car? Guess I never drive fast enough to create suction under my car |
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01-06-2024, 05:17 PM | #31 |
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A sport car creates low pressure underneath it which results in the air moving much faster under the car while the air above is moving slower and has higher pressure. That's how a sport car generates downforce. For example, a front splitter helps direct the air underneath the car, conversely the rear diffuser expands the fast moving air from under the car to help it evacuate. It's called the Bernoulli effect.
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I have the adaptive cruise module installed of it blocks a fair amount of the middle. I figure if it’s a problem, enough people will end up doing a class action lawsuit.
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The part that I don't think it is possible because the faster the car goes to generate that force, the cooler will be moving faster (since it's part of the car), thus leaving the object less time to accelerate. This is the diff eq math that I haven't done for a long while since college but it just seemed to me the going faster ain't going to make that scenario more possible. |
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I am of the opinion that debris ALREADY TUMBLING from a vehicle in front could quite possibly bounce high enough to smack the oil cooler.
BUT....no matter the reason, several owners have had damage of some sort wipe out the oil cooler, and then axing the motor. It sucks. |
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01-06-2024, 07:05 PM | #38 | |
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I only saw two threads about cooler/radiator being hit. the $1600 rock was the front, which totally imaginable. the other one was driving a long trip and then notice low oil pressure and found the bottom cooler damaged. To me it wasn't conclusive enough that it was for sure from a bouncing rock. And it was that thread that got me thinking lot about this. I am just very interested in the math and physics of this since I am bit of a nerd lol A plate certainly provide some protection from curbing regardless. |
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*You missed a post (in a thread) from BMW CA wherein he stated he knows of two that came into his dealership. Edit: *evidently I cannot find it now... Last edited by M_Power Rob; 01-06-2024 at 07:15 PM.. |
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Yeah, this coupled with probably half the ride height on the M2 seems more likely to get potentially damaging impacts. My car will have both a Mishimoto or similar plate, AND screens for the front except for the brake ducting. Unless I get the MP Carbon Intakes....I do like the look of those and would hate to cover it with a screen......Hmmmm.
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