Engine oil wont warm up

BGTV8 · 07-03-2014, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bleunetizen

i remember reading a post earlier saying the same thing somewhere, saying the reading of the stock gauge is the 'inlet' oil temperature, which is the cooled oil.

That sounds good to me but if that was true then the temperature should raise to 90deg+(194f+) quite quickly when the car is stationary and not getting the air flow through the cooler?

I am in Melbourne and we are having some chilly weather @ present. Freeway driving at 6am on the way to work sees oil temps @ 80-82 degrees and as soon as I am off the fwy, it goes up to 88-90 driving towards the CBD and stop/start in the CBD will get to 95 (I have a 19-row oil cooler) over the course of a few minutes.

I've never bothered with an oil thermostat, but have in the past covered half the oil cooler with some alfoil when we've had a sustained cold spell (does not happen all that often).

Depending on whether you are North or South Island, I'd expect yours to be similar, maybe a bit worse if you are in Wellington and possibly another 5 degrees down if you are bottom half of the South Island.

Worst case, get an oil thermostat fitted, cheap fix is alfoil/cardboard cover.

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