what temp does your oil get up to?

[booski]

I was just wondering because my temperature when driving gently is approx 100 celsius but on a good hard run i've hit 119 celsius. Is this what you guys have noticed?

[S4INT]

Mine is around 100 degrees normal driving, but I've had mine up to 130 degrees on track and hard driving in the Alps

[EuroSag]

Yeah, had various differen't B7 RS4's all up to the 120 ish mark quite frequently.

[booski]

Yeah, had various differen't B7 RS4's all up to the 120 ish mark quite frequently.

3 B7 rs4's wow! why?
good to know 120 isn't abnormal, thanks fellas

[Ozrs4]

138 degrees on skid pan

[MikeD]

There was a thread on this same topic some time back, I get to 138 on normal roads but opening the tap a bit , talking to Audi Germany re this due to the fact that oil starts to break down at 118 to 120ºC area so we loose above 50% of the oil's capability to protect..
I am changing the oil at least once every 14days to try to keep the motor A1 while Audi decide what to do. Last I heard they were due to send an engineer to Spain to work on my car but as of now still not seen him. But we do have average air temp of above 35ºC so that wont help, but even so. I found that adding water wetter to the cooling system helped by about 5 to 8ºC and also helped the oil warm up quicker in the mornings. When I get more from Audi I will make sure you all see their reply.
Mike.

[dom888]

I use Water Wetter and it took it down by 5ºC.

[SR71]

MikeD,

Have you spoken to the gurus (Guy) at Opie Oils (http://www.opieoils.co.uk) about your issues?

They're extremely knowledegable and might be able to advise you temporarily on a high temperature solution...maybe you need to move away from a multigrade oil for the summer? Something like a "60" oil except that in a V8 which revs to 8000+rpm, in theory, thats not ideal...

I don't know enough though.....

I get all my oil from them - they're about the only place I know about in the country where I can find the Titan Fuchs factory fill oil for the RS4.

Just a thought....

[sonny]

WOW those are high temps or maybe im NOT ragging m car hard enough!..lol

Normal drivign conditions are 96c and aspirated road drives (not track) around 106c

[SR71]

Consistently 125C today....

[pippyrips]

A steady 120c for me today too

Never seen higher than 109c before...

[Dom81]

OK - where are you both? On a track?

Having said that, I was at 122 in traffic on Sun (after a good blast) and that was much higher than I've seen before...

[aidanjaye]

The joys of having crap, wet weather....normal driving 98oC, thrashing it 105oC.

[P_G]

Highest I've had is 114, normal drive is 94-101 degree celcius

[Dom81]

The joys of having crap, wet weather....normal driving 98oC, thrashing it 105oC.

Me too - don't know what happened on Sunday!