Oil temp remains "LOW" while running
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Burning Brakes
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Oil temp remains "LOW" while running
Just got the car out for a little run to keep the battery up, and the oil temp readout on the DIC remained "LOW" despite other readouts confirming that normal operating temperatures had been reached. (The car was operated for about an hour, city streets and freeway.)
Anybody got experience with this?
Thanks!
Anybody got experience with this?
Thanks!
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Do you have a reduced temperature thermostat installed with modified cooling fan operation?
Exactly what temperature was your DIC reading? If it stayed "LOW", then this is a temperature glich in the programing. LOW comes on when you start the car under 23 F (I think) and it won't read correctly until you restart the car.
Lots of people find this setup unsuitable for winter (low temperature driving). If you oil temperature stays too low (under 200-212 F) then you will not burn off moisture and contaiminates in your oil. You will see increased engine wear.
Exactly what temperature was your DIC reading? If it stayed "LOW", then this is a temperature glich in the programing. LOW comes on when you start the car under 23 F (I think) and it won't read correctly until you restart the car.
Lots of people find this setup unsuitable for winter (low temperature driving). If you oil temperature stays too low (under 200-212 F) then you will not burn off moisture and contaiminates in your oil. You will see increased engine wear.
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Just got the car out for a little run to keep the battery up, and the oil temp readout on the DIC remained "LOW" despite other readouts confirming that normal operating temperatures had been reached. (The car was operated for about an hour, city streets and freeway.)
Anybody got experience with this?
Thanks!
Anybody got experience with this?
Thanks!
If you start the car when it's very cold, and the oil temp is below about 20* or so, the oil temp display will only show "low" instead of an actual number. The glitch, is that this will remain on the display during that ignition cycle no matter how warm the oil gets.
If you shut the car off once warmed up, and restart, the display should resume a normal oil temp reading.
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Burning Brakes
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Yeah. As said above, it's a normal "glitch" in the system.
If you start the car when it's very cold, and the oil temp is below about 20* or so, the oil temp display will only show "low" instead of an actual number. The glitch, is that this will remain on the display during that ignition cycle no matter how warm the oil gets.
If you shut the car off once warmed up, and restart, the display should resume a normal oil temp reading.
If you start the car when it's very cold, and the oil temp is below about 20* or so, the oil temp display will only show "low" instead of an actual number. The glitch, is that this will remain on the display during that ignition cycle no matter how warm the oil gets.
If you shut the car off once warmed up, and restart, the display should resume a normal oil temp reading.
Thanks for the advice.
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Just got the car out for a little run to keep the battery up, and the oil temp readout on the DIC remained "LOW" despite other readouts confirming that normal operating temperatures had been reached. (The car was operated for about an hour, city streets and freeway.)
Anybody got experience with this?
Thanks!
Anybody got experience with this?
Thanks!
That has a lot to do with your oil and coolant temp
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Burning Brakes
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It must have been the default, as suggested, because when I fired it up to run another errand it was reading fine.
Thanks for the assistance and the education.
Not much snow on the ground here, just remnants of storms over the past couple of weeks, but it's COLD. Only in the 20s today, it was low single digits last night.
Thanks for the assistance and the education.
Not much snow on the ground here, just remnants of storms over the past couple of weeks, but it's COLD. Only in the 20s today, it was low single digits last night.
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