11-03-2022, 07:46 PM | #1 |
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Center console scorching hot
Has anyone had this happen? I was doing some spirited driving now that we have nice weather and I just got home.
Maybe for about an hour. The plastic where you rest your right leg when you are driving was so hot when I was pulling into my house I couldn't even touch it. I don't have full leather so it's plastic for me. |
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Only other time I remember reading something like this was when the heat was on for the rear seats. Strange if that wasn't the case then…
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12-07-2022, 03:35 PM | #5 |
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I am running into this issue again...the past few days. After I drive for maybe 15 minutes the entire center console and the padding next to where your right leg rests (in my case plastic since I don't have full leather) heats up a very high temperature. I can feel the heat radiating.
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Definitely doesn't sound normal. Maybe some heat shielding came loose or was forgotten entirely? They might be able to tell from underneath the car.
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See this thread for good underbody pics:
https://g80.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh...php?p=28418036 It could be the left side catalyst overheating but that would almost certainly throw a check engine warning light (which I assume you don't have).
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12-07-2022, 06:18 PM | #11 |
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Well I went for another drive to see if I was crazy and the plastic is so hot I can’t even rest my leg against it. There is so much heat emitting I had to blast the AC and it’s like 60 degrees here. Taking her in in the morning
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Crazy. I’ll be on the lookout.
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12-09-2022, 12:14 AM | #14 |
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Are your rear vents CLOSED and set to MAX HEAT?
And it can’t possibly be the “left catalyst”. Both of them are on the right side of the engine next to the exhaust. Only the exhaust pipe comes over to the left side for the equal length. |
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My SA said he has seen this with other BMW's...I felt like of stupid because I didn't think they were on but they were. |
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This may not help you as much without you owning an infrared cam at your end but this is what the interior of my car looks like under infrared imaging about 10 mins after a drive (temp was set to Celicius):
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So these must be mufflers on each side of the transmission? Could the left one be the heat source?
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Seems weird that climate controls would allow the console to get hot enough to burn you. Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen and a design flaw / overlooked item that someone should have caught in R&D.
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Upon further research on ETK. These are secondary catalytic converters. But no, this would no be the cause of OP center console to get hot to the touch. If this cat was really causing that much heat, I’d assume there’d be other issues like things melting, burning, potential fire hazard if it’s getting that hot to get the center console to be lava. |
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Happens on X vehicles as well. Its a situation that gets created unintentionally. If you set the rear vents to max heat and then close them, the air has nowhere to go. So the ducts become slightly pressurized and leak out heat under the center console creating large amounts of heat. It would so the same thing with cold air as well. In my opinion this is user error, not a flawed or hazardous design.
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User error on climate controls should never result in injury.
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