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Over heating

          I was just reported by my wife that the '87 535is she took to 
          work overheated (when I parked the car there was smoking coming 
          out from under the hood and the temp needle was all the way to 
          the right!!).
          
          I hope no serious damage is done! However since she did not get a 
          low coolent warning light, I am guessing there was some thing 
          else which caused the overhead rather than low coolent. What 
          could it be?
          
          The car has about 78k miles. Is it that I need to change water 
          pump, thermostat, etc ?  How do I know what was the cause of this 
          overheating?
          
          Thanks.