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My previous car (BMW) only had oil temp. Other cars have only had coolant temp. I prefer to have both. It's interesting how fast the water temp comes up compared to the oil temp. Of course, the oil temp is the one to watch to decide if the car has warmed up sufficiently for "spirited" driving.
Solventsolution suggested there are no numerical values for water temp but the middle graduation in mine is marked 90 (degrees C - Australian delivered car) and the gauge consistently sits at that level after warm-up.
It's winter here now, so no idea yet what it does on one of our really hot days. My expectation is that nothing will change.
intresting. How does your coolant gauge look? My looks like this in the US.
intresting. How does your coolant gauge look? My looks like this in the US.
Here's mine:
Obviously the car is cold - so no oil temp readout,
I always prefer the actual numbers rather than just the graduations. Of course, we used to have imperial measurements until we changed to metric quite a few decades ago.
I reckon the temperature gauge will be a little bit 'fake', just as it was on my B8 A5. If I monitored with VCDS the temperature fluctuated quite a lot, especially in traffic where it will heat up enough for the cooling fans to come on and then drop low enough for them to stop again. All the while the gauge says exactly 90c. I reckon what it really tells you is "Not warmed up yet", "Normal operating range" (for which the gauge will read 90 exactly whatever it really is) and "Overheating". Which is what (most / normal) people actually need to know from the gauge.
The oil temperature is probably the actual value, since it reads with a specific number in 1c increments.
07-18-2018, 08:46 AM
