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Originally Posted by m6-lt1
If you’re not tracking the car your oil temp is barely higher than winter oil temps. If your oil cooler and auxiliary coolers are working correctly your oil temp in the summer will be a steady 212ish degrees. When you’re getting on it a bit it will go up a bit but not anywhere close to track temps. My car consistently see’s 270 degrees on track. Those are the temps you have to start worrying about breakdown and changing your oil sooner.
The temps in the summer from just daily’ing your car are nothing to worry about and I bet your oil life sensor is factoring in this exact thing that you’re worried about
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You being in Pennsylvania vs me in Texas is two different worlds. Like i said with my car not even running in the past 24 hours it will be static heat of 120 degrees in a garage. So normal day temperatures that would kill you is a Tuesday here. Blacktop roads are sitting at 300+ degrees. And like i said pretty much all oils can resist heat breakdown "well enough" but if i can find oil that if more resistant to heat breakdown even if maybe just changing oil weight helps out for summer intervals.
I do changes every 3000 miles like clockwork and even with daily driving im putting about 4000-5000 miles a year on the car.
Post shutdown and in traffic heat soak from the road is the bigger concern for me. Even at 3000 mile intervals I'm seeing thinned out black oil. And a noticeable reduction in engine vibrations after i change the oil.