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Old 05-11-2001, 01:18 PM
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What do you all do to warm up the oil temp? Meaning, how easy do you drive it...I live near a freeway so I know it's not good to drive at high speeds without the oil being warm. So I end up driving around my neighborhood for a couple of minutes. And frankly, this is kind of annoying. Is this really necessary? TIA
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Default I don't think driving at 60-65mph will do any harm.

Just don't accelerate fast; at least that's what I do (A6 2.7T, Royal Purple #21)
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Speed has nothing to do with it. Load and Throttle position does..
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to clarifyon't ask the turbo's to work tooo hard till oil is flowing..
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I agree! I don't normally get on the gas until the oil gauge needle has moved a bit.
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Default Drive as fast as you want... jsut use light-moderate throttle :)

Say, maybe 33% throttle.. 50% at most (if you HAVE to)

Just don't be asking the turbos to give you full boost until the oil temp starts to move off of 150 ;-)

At least, this is my rule of thumb

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I drive easy (no boost) until the coolant warms up but no hard running until oil temp is normal.
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Usually some wine and a little soft music.
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Default Speed has something to do with it, as load increases with speed

You cannot normally do, say, 100mph with just a little throttle.
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ROTFLMAO.


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