So is the oil temp sensor taking temperature before or after the cooler (if equiped)?
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Oil temp sensor
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Oil temperature senor is located on the driver side of the block near the HPFP. It reads oil temperature from the main bearing oil galley which is clean and then cooled oil. This gives a decent idea of what type of temps you're seeing through the bearings.
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I found this "This sensor is used in two locations on BMW's and serves as both an oil temperature and water temperature sensor. As a water temp sensor it is located in the side of the cylinder heads. As an oil temperature sensor it is located in the side of the oil filter stand at the front of the engine. This sensor determines temperature by changes in its electrical resistance. This information is relayed to your gauge cluster as well as to the DME where the information is used to adjust fuel, cooling fan operation, and vehicle diagnostics."
I am thoroughly confused now and we both seem to be wrong lol. Top oil filter housing sensor is plugged into clean filtered and cooled oil and it is definitely the pressure sensor. I put a new one in when I rebuilt my motor and it is not a temp sensor it is a different design.
The other two you'll have to figure out. Thinking back to when I rebuilt my block, I think the above description may be incorrect. I think the front sensor is coolant and the side sensor is oil. That is what I remember them being anyway.
IF you read through the N55 engine PDF: http://www.1addicts.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=586998
It contradicts the information quoted above and agrees with me. If you look at the side of the engine block where the sensor is located near the HPFP it is way too low to be coolant. I remember it being an oil passage.
This leads me back to my original post that the oil temperature sensor is on the side of the block and it reads clean (and cooled) oil in the main bearing oil galley right before it gets fed through the bearings.
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https://www.pelicanparts.com/BMW/te.../FUEL-Engine_Temperature_Sensor_Replacing.htm
Opposite way around, pressure sensor is on the block lol.
Opposite way around, pressure sensor is on the block lol.
I am referring to #16 here: https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/sh...-2010-E82-BMW-135i&diagId=11_4447#13627580635
What you quote does not make sense. I think pelican is wrong as is the description in many places. Even the BMW doc calls it both a pressure sensor on one page and a temperature sensor on another page of the PDF I linked (erroneously of course). I have held #16 it in my hand. It is 100% a probe temperature sensor.
The sensor near the the filter cap is 100% the pressure sensor. It is completely different then #16 above. It is a valve (to measure oil pressure) and there is no thermistor on it. Now go look at the front of your engine at that sensors location. It is the coolant temperature sensor and it plugs into the cylinder head. It has nothing to do with the oil filter housing and stays with the cylinder head even when you remove the oil filter housing. See here as well: https://bmw.spoolstreet.com/threads/coolant-temp-sensor.3448/
https://www.newtis.info/tisv2/a/en/...ntrol/13-62-senders-for-control-unit/D7wda78v
As stated in my previous post, there is no coolant flowing through the block where #16 mounts. It can't be a coolant sensor. Not only is it physically impossible for #16 to be a pressure sensor since it's a thermistor, it also doesn't make sense for it to be a pressure sensor since it would not give an accurate picture of oil pressure throughout the motor. There are other oil galleys that could potentially drop pressure and the DME would never see it.
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Well, You can count on this wireless pressure sensor https://store.ncd.io/product/long-range-iot-wireless-temperature-barometric-pressure-sensor/ bought from dealer which can be using pressure bar according to vehicle oil pressure system and can also share the information with temperature parameters at same time.
