10,000 mile between oil changes

jeffreyfranz · 02-11-2010, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by stormcrow

With the 3.7l motor running oil temps of 200-220 under normal driving conditions (due to lack of oil cooler) why would anyone say that "oil won't break down under normal driving conditions" and recommend 7500 mile change intervals?

No oil cooler??? YIKES! Even my RX-8 had dual oil coolers. now I know what my first after-market addition is going to be.

BTW, how good (accurate, functional) are the gauges in our cars?

m4a1mustang · 02-11-2010, 09:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeffreyfranz

No oil cooler??? YIKES! Even my RX-8 had dual oil coolers. now I know what my first after-market addition is going to be.

BTW, how good (accurate, functional) are the gauges in our cars?

The oil temp gauge is good.

schrute · 02-11-2010, 09:58 AM

oil temp gauge is good.

The water temp gauge is hard to read at a glance - just a single lit led in a row of 16 or so. You can add a scanguage if you like keeping track of stuff

m4a1mustang · 02-11-2010, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by schrute

oil temp gauge is good.

The water temp gauge is hard to read at a glance - just a single lit led in a row of 16 or so. You can add a scanguage if you like keeping track of stuff

I really wish we had an oil pressure gauge.

stormcrow · 02-11-2010, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by jeffreyfranz

No oil cooler??? YIKES! Even my RX-8 had dual oil coolers. now I know what my first after-market addition is going to be.

BTW, how good (accurate, functional) are the gauges in our cars?

I recommend the AE Performance oil cooler. It's a bit more cost-wise, but it actually works as promised and has some excellent key features.

As stated above, the oil temp gauge works well. It's easily read and has enough hashes to be more granular with the temperature readings. The others - all suck. WTF is up with the water temp gauge? That is the most useless POS ever. And I do miss having an oil pressure gauge...temps are nice, but if there is no pressure....ummmmmmmmmmmm.

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