Oil temp/ pressure gauges installed correctly?

eeonmomberg

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Location
Camano
TDI
2006 golf tdi
Hey guys I have a 2006 golf tdi bew and I got a boost gauge kit from glow shift with the boost, oil temp and oil pressure gauges, I wired them all up with my kerma tdi adapter for the oil gauges and boost gauge was tapped straight into the intake, no problems with the boost gauge but the oil pressure is reading 60-70 when the car is started (I'm sure that's normal as the oil is cold) then drops down to 16 psi when it's warm at idle, everywhere I look it's suppose to be between 20-40 psi, being a lil low kinda worries me but it's running great, as for the oil temp gauge install see people saying they get 200 as a min and upward of 250 sometimes, mine won't get above 165 which really worries me since it needs to evaporate any water out, I never see any water when doing my oil changes but I'm wondering if I put the oil gauges in a good spot, the kerma adapter goes into the factory oil switch port in the oil filter housing with 3 spots in the adapter, one for the factory oil pressure switch, and two for each of the gauges, no check engine light but I wanted to see what others thought, maybe oil cooler is over doing it? Also oil temp goes down to about 130-140 when I'm driving, only time it really gets up to 160 is when I stop and run into a store real fast it will be at 160 when I start the car back up but once I start moving it goes back down
Any help is greatly appreciated
 

eeonmomberg

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Joined
Dec 10, 2022
Location
Camano
TDI
2006 golf tdi
Ok Coolio, anyone got anything on the temps? I'm not worried about if the engine is hurt but everything i look up says oil temp should be 200-250f and i can't get it above 160ish, just spent the money and time to install it so I could monitor it so I wanna get it working correctly, glow shift told me to cut the wires and check resistance of the sensor to see if it's bad....
 

garciapiano

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Feb 12, 2018
Location
Los Angeles
TDI
1997 Jetta TDI (1Z)
Glow shift quality ain’t the best. I have one of their gauge/sensors on my Miata. The first temp sensor I got from them was dead on arrival. They went around in circles and wouldn’t warranty it. I bought a new one and it worked fine.
 
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