Engine extremely hot after short drive. Ok or not?

[ronk]

Aha okay Will try that

It's a belt and braces approach.

For years cars only had coolant temp gauges and it's only when you see how long it takes the oil to warm up that you realise that we've been abusing the engines in the past.

Or it could be a lag in the gauge reading the temp!

 

[Disca]

Aha okay Will try that

It's a belt and braces approach.

For years cars only had coolant temp gauges and it's only when you see how long it takes the oil to warm up that you realise that we've been abusing the engines in the past.

Or it could be a lag in the gauge reading the temp!

Yeah I've seen how long the ///M takes to warm, and in comparison using the 3.0si temp gauge its very quick. Shall have to behave for 5 miles now!

 

[Bing]

///M's have an oil gauge.

Just us mere standard cars that are the poor relation with coolant

Yeah, takes 8-10 miles for mine to warm up .... but by then I'm very ready to :evil:

 

[ronk]

It's probably been a bit over cautious but it can't do any harm!
In general, it's just good practice on any machine to get it thoroughly warmed thro before giving it some grief!

 

[Chasabi]

All completely normal. Wait until it rains on the bonnet and it starts steaming from the heat - worried the hell out of me first time I saw it

Just remember that the temperature you're seeing is coolant and not oil, it takes a few more miles for the oil to get up to temp.

Hmmmm that I didn't know. I usually wait until the temperature gauge settles in the middle before I break out the heavy foot! I would think that the oil would warm up just as quick considering our cars should be running on a fairly low viscosity oil i.e. 0w30

 

[ronk]

My previous E85 said it was ready to "go" very soon, (coolant temp) it was only when I bought the E89 with oil temp that it was a good five miles (on a warm day) before the oil was up to temp.

If I had to choose oil or water temp, I would choose an oil temp gauge.

 

[Bing]

So the M is a different engine and probably takes longer to warm as it's a cast iron block, but the oil takes about 5 miles to get to 50 degrees, and it gets to operating temp - 80-95 degrees - after another 5. In my 3.0 I would wait until the gauge had sat in the middle for a few mins before pushing on. The restraint required now is quite out of character :lol:

 

[Ewazix]

As they say all sounds normal the electric water pump and thermostat ensure the fast warm-up and keep the engine at an optimum temp for emissions.

The Temp gauge is not linear and really only shows three states, cold, normal and overheating. Hence the dash temp' gauge will sit dead centre indicating 'normal' when the engine is anywhere between a relatively cool 75 and pretty hot 113 deg C, which explains the way the engine can appear to warm up so quickly and the gauge not move even when it feels physically very hot.

I'd say panic over 8)