{"id":77,"date":"2011-12-26T15:07:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/?p=77"},"modified":"2011-12-26T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T15:07:23","slug":"overheated-bmw-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/overheated-bmw-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Overheated BMW Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"BMW heating system\" data-src=\"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/photoalbum\/albums\/newpictures\/normal_170.jpg\" alt=\"BMW heating system\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 533px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 533\/400;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BMW owners, please note your car modern Alloy engines will not tolerate severe overheat.\u00a0 Due to the strength of Alloy, it will get tempered (destroyed) by overheating.<\/p>\n<p>Aluminum is a light metal, with low melting point.\u00a0Aluminum&#8217;s melting point\u00a0 is half of the\u00a0 cast Cast Iron&#8217;s meting point, which is beyond 1200 Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>Older cast iron engines did tolerate overheating better.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of overheating do yourself a favor and don&#8217;t try to drive your car home or to your favorite mechanic shop or you might need a new engine on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Our advice is, turn engine\u00a0 off\u00a0 and get a tow truck. As much as it is inconvenient, towing \u00a0 is still\u00a0 your best and less expensive alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW owners, please note your car modern Alloy engines will not tolerate severe overheat.\u00a0 Due to the strength of Alloy, it will get tempered (destroyed) by overheating. Aluminum is a light metal, with low melting point.\u00a0Aluminum&#8217;s melting point\u00a0 is half of the\u00a0 cast Cast Iron&#8217;s meting point, which is beyond 1200 Celsius. Older cast iron &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/overheated-bmw-engine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Overheated BMW Engine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmw-repair-service","tag-bmw-engine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techmax.ca\/BMW-repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}