until the oil catches fire, its all good.

Yup. The flashpoint of clean oil is over 400F so I think you're safe. Contaminated (old) oil drops to around 300F.

Austex - that is normal as far as I can tell. Until i put a cooler on the car that is exactly what I was running - to and from SA from Austin on IH35 or 281. I have a project in SA and make the trip often. You have no worries mate. :tiphat:

Do the 2011 370z's have oil coolers?? I just ordered one with the sport package and plan on running it hard.

Im sorry keno but I have to ask. Did u order your car online that you couldn't check or ask that? I don't think it comes with oil cooler. Nissan made it clear that is an option item.

No they do not come with an Oil Cooler, and the way I understand it, if you get one installed you void your warranty.

If you install the Nissan Oil Cooler will not Void your Warranty.

Also NO Dealer should void the warranty of your car for any aftermarket parts installed on your car unless the aftermarket part is the cause of the problem. They only can void the warranty of the part damage and not the whole car.

Read about the Magnuson Law.

oh boy... this is wrong, move along folks

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I am verrrry sorry........I have read on the forum many times that it did void the warranty. I even read a thread yesterday that was a survey that was taken here a few months ago that had that in it......


Honestly.....I HUMBLY APOLOGIZE....I was wrong and thank you travisjb for pointing that out

Oh don't worry there's nothing wrong. On the other hand you are one of thousands that dealer take atvantage of their ignorance and try immediately to void warranties of the car for them to make profit. Now you know theirs a law that protect the after market parts for any car. So if I sound rude my bad. Wasn't my intention. :-)

Yeah, didn't mean to pile on and no need for an apology - issue comes up a lot on this board and we don't want our fellow Z owners to be taken advantage of... suggest you take the time to read this: Magnuson?Moss Warranty Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But which side of the argument is the Burden of Proof on?

Just a point of interest, you MAY want to post this same survey up on the G37 forums, they have been reporting the SAME issues as 370Z owners regarding oil temps...
That would only strengthen the argument for NNA to do something about this.

From what I can see not a SINGLE person has had an engine fail due to these supposed "high" oil temperatures. The only reason this whole thread exists is just straight up ignorance. How many of you guys on here bitching about the "high temps" have EVER had an oil temp gauge in another car? How do you know that 240* is too high? What does your wife's minivan run at? NEWS FLASH!!! It's probably the freakin same!!!

Nissan didn't put the gauge in the car because they "knew it was a problem" That's the dumbest thing i've ever heard.. almost. If they knew that was a problem, the LAST thing they'd do is put a gauge that shows every person with internet access that there's a problem. What Nissan did do was give themselves a giant headache by putting that temp gauge in there so you guys could bitch about high engine temps. If the coolant temp isn't getting too higih, then it's probably not overtemp. I bet if there were a tranny or diff temp gauge in there, you'd bitch about those temps being too high as well. Maybe some EGT gauges scattered about would be better?