I have personally seen it happen (a friend of mine who lives in Chicago mind you...not exactly a warm climate) and have heard of it happening a number of times.Not true Verruckt, there have been some reports of overheating but the majority do not see this problem.Prawn wrote:[quote="Verrückt
I would say this is your best bet. Keep the SMIC's.
Cars that are run hard in the US with FMIC's have overheating problems...especially on the race track. Not good.
It is certainly not a given which is the way you imply it in your post.
The FMIC has also had a redesign since that time.
I have never seen the coolant temp on my car go up by even 1 deg during the summer and this is running with the fans all switched off, and yes the car does get driven hard !
There has been 1 issue with a car running oil temp too LOW, this is probably down to a faulty thermostat, again on mine no issues oil temp is spot on, running the std Audi stat.
It's enough to make me weary of the product considering the minimal gains over an SMIC setup. Just add water injection and you have a far better cooling setup than the FMIC.
I also don't like the fact you have to hack up your bumper and REMOVE the bumper support. There's no way that would pass inspection. Imagine what your insurance will say if they find out you took off the bumper support.
