tracking a car, it's hard to avoid, live with it...change out the oil soon.

but just jumping on it briefly and seeing that kind of elevated oil temp is a bit surprising. are the oil temp gauges on the RS4 accurate? has anybody checked?

I hit them hard (2nd gear red-line) and hit the on ramps at 3rd gear red-line. . . over several locations (about 10 minutes worth of abuse). At that point, it will climb to 240-250.

On the way back, in 6th, it cools down rapidly. So, I should have elaborated a bit on my orig. post.

and in that case, forget i said anything : )

Not sure how much difference living at 6000 feets makes...

210-218 with an ambient temp of around 100 degrees. Never seen 220+ yet. But I have seen the add oil light a couple of times.

I noticed that my average commuting engine oil temperature has increased a few degrees after passing 15k.

It's not significant by any means but whereas I used to stay under 214, I now regularly see up to 219 on my daily commute with my same driving pattern. I typically keep my revs under 4k the entire 25 miles to work.

The engine oil temperature cools down quickly too. One moment it will be at 219, the next moment it will drop to 208.

I'm not concerned but this is true for my car.