RapidC84B

OK... lots of discussion about the MT article where Probst had a "high oil temp warning" on lap 4. However, I don't think it specified which oil. If it was the trans temp, then that's a known issue which should be easy to fix with an aftermarket solution. If it's engine oil temp, then that'd be a bigger issue to me. It's possible the MN7 car can be flogged as delivered w/o issue. All the pics and stuff seem to be done in the yellow MN7 car, but this video shows Probst using the auto white car for his hot laps. It makes no mention of him driving the yellow one, or getting that one hot.

Thoughts?

ByByBMW

IIRC over in the C7Z06 section they say he was driving a M7 because the A8 was not available.

RapidC84B

The video above clearly shows him in the A8 toward the end.

ByByBMW

You are correct. But I can't get into the MT site at the moment to get the rest of the details. He did get a hot oil temp alarm but not sure if it was manual or auto. The plot thickens.

Pocket Aces

They probably didn't wait for the break in period to end and didn't change the oil at 500 miles

Pocket Aces

Also imagine if the car was a black car in the summer time. Tests have shown surface temp on a black car vs white car in summer sun is 40+ degrees difference. Another reason to avoid getting a black car...

RapidC84B

The MT article shows pics of him driving both cars. States they had to drive the yellow car to do their instrumented testing i.e. 0-60, 1/4 mile, skid pad, etc. They use the white auto for the lap times. The article says a high oil temp, but doesn't say which oil it is. I'm assuming it was the trans at this point.

John Micheal Henry

I'm grinning ear to ear.. Man what a ride..

mjw930

Don't jump to conclusions, they said OIL, why would anyone extrapolate that to transmission. If it was transmission then they would have said transmission. When the dash says oil it means engine oil. Trans temp is reported as exactly that, trans temp.

RapidC84B

True... hope that's not the case. All the ducting and venting and laid forward cooling package and cooling issues are the last thing this car should have.

mjw930

And based on when this was done I don't think they had completed and installed the secondary trans cooler. That was discovered in Nurburgring testing, which was going on when this track day was done.

Remember, these tests are run weeks or months before they are published and based on all of them hitting today they were embargoed