some pics of our heater core change

[shogun]

on a E32 750iL Highline 12/1992, maybe interesting to see how that looks inside
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/427855

Got the new Behr heater core for less than 100 $ from Germany :D

Autohaus charges almost $ 170
http://www.autohausaz.com/search/product.aspx?sid=qhv4e5r44esr0o45zn0o4155&makeid=800003@BMW&modelid=1012947@750IL&year=1992&cid=24@AC%20%26%20Heat%20-%20Climate%20Control&gid=6864@Heater%20Core

But of course they include the shipping cost for orders >50 $.

[clindahl]

I'm going to do that this weekend on my 525i :) Thanks for the pictures!!

[shogun]

That is with climate automatic from Behr (Klimatronik).
In case your car does not have a climate control (just a heating system) and the parts are from Siemens, that is quickly done in 30 minutes
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/143292/

[uscharalph]

I'm going to do that this weekend on my 525i :) Thanks for the pictures!!
Long weekend huh. LOL!!

[CharlesAFerg]

My freakin' heater core just dumps my coolant out when I fill it! Also, it smells like piss after my car sits in the rain, and when I turn on my heater it smells like fish!

Yummy!

wooo \m/:D \m/

Shogun, how did you get the heater core for $100 shipped?
Let us know, we want a piece of that action!

[uscharalph]

My freakin' heater core just dumps my coolant out when I fill it! Also, it smells like piss after my car sits in the rain, and when I turn on my heater it smells like fish!

Yummy!

wooo \m/:D \m/

Shogun, how did you get the heater core for $100 shipped?
Let us know, we want a piece of that action!
I had to bypass mine.

[shogun]

Shogun, how did you get the heater core for $100 shipped? Let us know, we want a piece of that action!

A friend in Germany bought it for me on Ebay Germany, the price was less than 100 $ ex Germany, plus shipping to Japan.
I assume that you can get it in USA also for such price incl. shipping.
Here the price for your model as Autohaus AZ
Behr $168.55

http://www.autohausaz.com/search/product.aspx?sid=rpn3t455eboyl145lteyxo45&makeid=800003@BMW&modelid=1012026@525I&year=1989&cid=24@AC%20%26%20Heat%20-%20Climate%20Control&gid=6864@Heater%20Core

[shogun]

Charles, here for 78.00 EURO from Brennscheidt in Germany
http://www.brenscheidt.de/default2.htm
Waermetauscher BMW 002.0196
7er E32 u.a. vgl.OE-Nr:8372523 Netzmass:148x269x42
Artikelnummer: 002.0196
original Hersteller Nr: 8372523

Radiator for your 525 EUR 138,00
http://www.brenscheidt.de/default2.htm

And here the next horror pics from a leaking heater core from last night in Germany
http://www.7-forum.com/forum/showthread.html?p=774691#post774691
The chap worked till 3 AM and will continue today.

[CharlesAFerg]

Charles, here for 78.00 EURO from Brennscheidt in Germany
http://www.brenscheidt.de/default2.htm
Waermetauscher BMW 002.0196
7er E32 u.a. vgl.OE-Nr:8372523 Netzmass:148x269x42
Artikelnummer: 002.0196
original Hersteller Nr: 8372523

Radiator for your 525 EUR 138,00
http://www.brenscheidt.de/default2.htm

And here the next horror pics from a leaking heater core from last night in Germany
http://www.7-forum.com/forum/showthread.html?p=774691#post774691
The chap worked till 3 AM and will continue today.

Danke schoen!

[CharlesAFerg]

I had to bypass mine.

So now you have no heat? How did you do that?
Unfortunately, I need my heat... lol
I'll be fixin it!

[Jehu]

on a E32 750iL Highline 12/1992, maybe interesting to see how that looks inside
http://www.bimmerboard.com/forums/posts/427855

Got the new Behr heater core for less than 100 $ from Germany :D

Autohaus charges almost $ 170
http://www.autohausaz.com/search/product.aspx?sid=qhv4e5r44esr0o45zn0o4155&makeid=800003@BMW&modelid=1012947@750IL&year=1992&cid=24@AC%20%26%20Heat%20-%20Climate%20Control&gid=6864@Heater%20Core

But of course they include the shipping cost for orders >50 $.

I felt rather heroic after successfully changing my heater core but wanted to ask what your opinion is about getting each and every last one of the little aluminum clips back on the cover. I found i was unable to reach to every clip fitments so ended up with perhaps as few as half of them back on albeit in a good overall distribution around the perimeter . I feared i would lose blower force due to leakage but this has not happened. My dash has a rigid bolted vertical bar to the right of the steering column which looked like it bolted to the dash top that made it very difficult to wrench the bolt holding in the swing gate for the two side pipes and also made it impossible to reach to come of those clip fitments but its been running just fine for a couple of months now,hasn't sprung a leak and blows plenty strong. Saving over a thousand dollars for the job still proves a source of satisfaction.