Everyone with oil temp issues

semtex

Adding in a bottle of Water Wetter might help too. It's one of the first things I do to every car I buy.

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alan93rsa

Check out what is available for an Ohio license plate. I just keyed it in and checked the Ohio BMV web site for availability

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tbonesteak

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Musashi

I'll send you $50 via pay pal to get it.

alan93rsa

The radiator is a good topic. Since we are out of the sub zero range here in Ohio, not the freezing range, I plan to dump 1/2 the coolant and fill with water and a bottle of water wetter. Every little bit helps.

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pseudodriver

A warranty claim on my 370 - a big one ! - was recently denied because nissan found a picture online with an aftermarket oil cooler being installed (traced to me through license plate also on pic - doh!)... they may have had further reason to deny the claim, i don't have all the details, but figured i should alert you guys that the aftermarket oil cooler was part of the reason for denial, if not the only reason... please don't ask me to explain this further - i'm in the middle of a messy dispute... but just wanted to share, so folks get a sense of the risk... several dealers i've spoken with have also confirmed that nissan has a history of denying warranty claims due to aftermarket oil coolers... We need some official input from Nissan, but if you want to be conservative, i'd advise waiting for the nismo oil cooler, which i've been told will most definitely not have any negative impact on warranty...

Re a nismo oil cooler, i might as well spill the beans on this since nissan hasn't treated me well at all lately!... i talked with a rep at nismo a month ago... he said they are accelerating commercialization, directly resulting from the user feedback here ! nissan usa is paying attention to this board... and i was told that several threads from this board circulated 'nissan headquarters'

Finally, re oil pressure, highly recommend adding an oil pressure gauge if you're going to the trouble of adding an oil cooler... there are gauges that should fit in place of your clock - hopefully DDM or someone will make a kit for us !

yes, this is a cowardly pseudnym post... please just don't ask !

azn370z

I think i will wait until nissan adds an oil cooler for the 370z before i buy one. Hopefully nissan adds the oil cooler next year. I'm certainly not going to add an aftermarket oil cooler and be denied warranty if something goes wrong.

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ZAtLeast

+1. A 370Z will be back on top of my potential car list once an oil cooler is added from factory.

sirploppy

This was a big reason I ended up not buying one. I was getting uneasy from the first couple reviews and reading that the car and driver car had oil and diff coolers installed. Knowing that someday I wanted to go to a driver's school, I was thinking this was going to be a problem for me and for people that were going to track the car. I was also worried about what installing an aftermarket oil cooler would do to my warranty.

It seems from reading through this post it's even effecting people who just go out for a spirited drive. Come July and August I think there maybe a lot of unhappy owners.

Other than this issue though, I absolutely fell in love with the car.

minik2

I was almost sold until I saw this thread...waiting also

The Weapon

Sent my Letter. I live in Az. I haven't even reved my car past 4k yet. I only have 500 miles on it and i am hitting 250 degrees.

It's pretty insane that i can go from 180 to 250 within 5 minutes. I can only imagine how much quicker it will go up once i start actually driving the car up a mountain.

alan93rsa

My 335i ran at 240F all day long.

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Musashi

Oil begins to break down at about 260 degrees especially when it's a sustained.

Does Nissan want to be replacing engines under warranty for people or let them slide on oil coolers which they never made available to us.

tbonesteak

^^ me too. no buy til prob is fixed.

McSqueeb

It is horribly unfortunate that the 370Z has these issues already. I had saved up to buy one and finally found myself in a position to pick one up and this is simply a deal breaker for me. I'm thinking I may have to wait for a future model or for a recall (which is necessary in my opinion since I see this being a problem for daily driving in the near future).