Re: clogged fuel filter causes engine to overheat?

"Borked Pseudo Mailed" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> My wife worked for 6 months as a car detailer in a BMW Autohaus.
> She says while she was there, there had two cars in the workshop
> that overheated because the fuel filter was dirty.
> I never heard this before.  I reckon the mechanics were pulling
> her leg (because she is umm the dumb blonde).
> I don't see how too little fuel would cook an engine.
> Or is this a trait of the Bavarian engines?
>

If the clogged fuel filter caused a drop in fuel pressure and leaning out
it 
is possible since running lean increases combustion temperatures.