How I maintain my 8
2009 RX-8 Touring
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 574
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From: Manassas, VA USA
There is no other car/make/model sold in the last 10 years that you have to get in, start the car and wonder if it’s going to die on you today
Never owned an Audi, have you?.
Your comments are mostly fair, but your oil 'observations' are a bit wacky - if there is gas in the oil, the best way to get it out is to heat it and get it moving, leaving the filler cap will do the same thing but it will take five years to evaporate......
Once gas gets into the oil, it will never 'float on top', it has become part of the mixture and will never seperate without a lot of heat or vacuum.
It's sad to think of you living in fear of your car, babying it and dribbling around at low revs to achieve "decent fuel economy" and even then griping about "the abysmal fuel economy" - WTF??!? Why bother? It didn't make you happy, but you continue to do it.....
....and skip the little pillow behind your head - you are supposed to be awake to drive an '8!
S
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Never owned an Audi, have you?.
Your comments are mostly fair, but your oil 'observations' are a bit wacky - if there is gas in the oil, the best way to get it out is to heat it and get it moving, leaving the filler cap will do the same thing but it will take five years to evaporate......
Once gas gets into the oil, it will never 'float on top', it has become part of the mixture and will never seperate without a lot of heat or vacuum.
It's sad to think of you living in fear of your car, babying it and dribbling around at low revs to achieve "decent fuel economy" and even then griping about "the abysmal fuel economy" - WTF??!? Why bother? It didn't make you happy, but you continue to do it.....
....and skip the little pillow behind your head - you are supposed to be awake to drive an '8!
S
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2009 RX-8 Touring
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 574
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From: Manassas, VA USA
Well...how long does it take to get the coolant up to 170F? The middle of the temp gauge is somewhere between 180-200 degrees usually, and since it's a watercooled engine, the temperature of the coolant is the temperature of the block and everything inside it.
sure about that ? I don't have an oil temp guage but those that do have said it takes longer for the oil to come up than the water .......
2009 RX-8 Touring
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 574
Likes: 6
From: Manassas, VA USA
I suppose differences of a few degrees are possible, but the thermal conductivity of the engine block rules out large differences in temperature, and if the oil filter mount has a coolant block on it (which most cars do, though admittedly I haven't looked at the one on the RX-8 yet) then the oil and water temperatures should be basically locked together.
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