mirage2521
Veteran Member
This is my first car with an oil temp indicator. What is the average oil temp you guys are seeing. How high is too high?
With modern oils, and coolant to oil coolers, don't worry, drive more.
Guess if you are towing and you see it spike, then slow down.....
The guages are more about waiting till you see it move a bit on a cold day before you drive it hard.
Yep! It works both ways.223 is pretty common on the Alltrack and '15 Passat.
BTW I think the oil cooler is also there to get the oil up to temp a lot quicker.
A gas engine is a gas engine ..those have been like that for decades...glad you have discovered it.Drive a gen3 1.8T TSI and compare the warm up time of the TDI and you'd hardly say it warms up "fast". In about 2 min and 1/2 mile the TSI has coolant at 200F. Screaming hot air out of the vents in 1 mile.
The 288 are faster at heating up than previous CR diesels, yeah, but I wouldn't say its fast.