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Re: : <all> Black PS fluid
- Subject: Re: : <all> Black PS fluid
- From: "Allan Williams" <allanw@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 22:49:10 +1300
Mine is like this too...I haven't got around to replacing it. It looks like
old hypoid gearbox oil...all dark and smelly. I don't have any *big*
particulates in it.
Is it major, or should I just change it and not be so paranoid?
Allan Williams
91 E30 325i SE/4 5spd
- -----Original Message-----
From: bmw-digest <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, 15 December 1998 4:18
Subject: bmw-digest V9 #690
>Date: Mon, 14 Dec 98 04:13:05 -0700
>From: "S. Cooperman" <[email protected]>
>Subject: <all> Black PS fluid
>
>When I noticed that my power steering fluid had black particulates
>suspended in it I replaced the fluid. My question is where did the black
>particulates come from? Did the fluid break down? Is this little parts
>of PS pump, or are the insides of the rubber hoses disintegrating from
>the inside out? Does anybody know where the black particulates came from?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Steve Cooperman
>Tucson, Arizona
>Sonora Chapter
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