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Hello,
my 2013 R60/N18 thermostat replacement is going slow but I'm closing in on it. I seem to have a couple of sensor plugs with no stray wires to plug into them (photos attached). Something needs to be plugged in here, or does it? This appears to be a sensor, but where does it go?
What am I missing?
I thought maybe looking at the sensor a little closer might give me a clue what it is sensing, so I took it apart and it appears to be sensing current, somehow lol IT IS A #$%@ FUSE HOLDER
Question on this...is this thermostat and/or the oil filter housing a reason I would have a slight OIL/COOLANT mix leaking on the ground and i see a little bit of coolant residue slightly pooled up when I look down past the filter, maybe the transmission shelf or something?
Could be. 99.9% sure the oil filter housing has two chambers of fluid through it, one is coolant, one is oil. If the oil filter housing gasket has started leaking oil, it's also conceivable the coolant side gasket is also failing. I believe coolant is pumped into the heat exchanger, fashioning as a liquid cooled radiator, for the engine oil. I'm not sure if coolant can get into the oil from this failure mode. Could be two different leaking components, oil from the filter housing, and coolant from the thermostat/hose/plastic hose connector.
