Nissan Consumer Affairs Oil Cooler Response

Wally

For those of you that have not seen temps above 225 take the car out drive 70 to 75 in 5th gear for about 20 minutes with a few spirited revs and watch the temp climb,

butters167

I have been on some spirited drives and the temp did jump up to 225 pretty fast but didn't go higher, guess I'm lucky so far.

No offense but why would I drive 75 in 5th for 20 minutes straight, if I'm going to be going 75 for that long I would have shifted into 6th about 19 minutes ago that's what it's for. I guess I would if I wanted to test the temp. issue but I try not to push an issue unless it happens on its own.

wstar

I'm with you on this. I've intentionally pushed mine to 260 on the street by staying in a higher gear than necessary while cruising on the highway for a while, but I've never had 260 "just happen" to me when I'm driving like I always do (which is pretty damned aggresive a lot of the time, but on the street there are always limitations, like safety issues, other cars, poor pavement quality in areas, likely speed trap areas, etc). The 6MT guys seem to be slightly worse off perhaps, and we haven't yet seen the worst heat of the summer, those are other factors. But still, I'm not sure that anything that could be defined as reasonable street driving is going to limp-mode this car (which is 280+ if I understand correctly for the first limp mode, which I've never hit). Maybe guys driving in the middle of the desert in august aggressively will see it, but not most of us.

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