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YOUR RESEARCHNormal Oil Temp?
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people comparing their guage readings
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One person claimed this was due to people comparing their guage readings, then complaining to the dealership that their neighbor was running at lower temps/higher oil pressure than their car....or getting freaked when they saw coolant temps run higher on hot days in traffic.
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One person claimed this was due to people comparing their guage readings, then complaining to the dealership that their neighbor was running at lower temps/higher oil pressure than their car....or getting freaked when they saw coolant temps run higher on hot days in traffic.
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For some reason, Porsche thinks that more accurate information can be used by intelligent people.
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One person claimed this was due to people comparing their guage readings, then complaining to the dealership that their neighbor was running at lower temps/higher oil pressure than their car....or getting freaked when they saw coolant temps run higher on hot days in traffic.
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One person claimed this was due to people comparing their guage readings, then complaining to the dealership that their neighbor was running at lower temps/higher oil pressure than their car....or getting freaked when they saw coolant temps run higher on hot days in traffic.
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people comparing their guage readings
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One person claimed this was due to people comparing their guage readings, then complaining to the dealership that their neighbor was running at lower temps/higher oil pressure than their car....or getting freaked when they saw coolant temps run higher on hot days in traffic.
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What you are seeing is pressure not temp. and yes under cold morning starts and WOT the oil pressure is going to be high. At normal cruising speeds the pressure should be some where in the middle.
Yup, thats not the oil temp. You're looking at the pressure gauge. at cold starts, it will stay at 5 until the oil warms up, then it vary with your engine RPM from 2bars at idle to 5bar at anything over 3500rpm for me.
One source of confusion in recent years comes from American car companies creating "central tendency guages." In effect, the guage always reads in the middle of the range, except when the temp/press gets
dramatically
out of range.
In effect, guages on most American cars have become idiot lights in the form of a guage. One person claimed this was due to people comparing their guage readings, then complaining to the dealership that their neighbor was running at lower temps/higher oil pressure than their car....or getting freaked when they saw coolant temps run higher on hot days in traffic. (How is this POSSIBLE!?)
For some reason, Porsche thinks that more accurate information can be used by intelligent people. (Go figure.....) Anyway, while your guages have more informative readouts, recognize that between cars, differences within manufacturing tolerances can produce slightly different readings (as these are just daily guages rather than diagnostic quality readouts). So, your readings may be slightly different than the next guy's, even if the actual conditions in your engine are the same.
That said, you do need to keep track of whether you're looking at coolant temp, oil pressure, etc.
You mean like the Porsche coolant temperature idiot light that reports the temperature as 175F even if it is actually 220F? I guess this is a gauge for for the intelligent drivers?
Even the oil pressure gauge if way off as far as reporting accurate oil pressure. It is consistant and does increase and decrease on the scale as pressure changes, but it is hardly accurate in reporting the absolute oil pressure.
The fact is, if you want accurate gauge readings, you'll have to spend alot more money than Porsche or any other auto manufacturer is willing to invest in their cars.
Porsche makes only 1 accurate gauge, and that is the clock.
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