Thread: is this normal?
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      04-19-2014, 12:55 PM   #3
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Nothing out of the ordinary. Many car mfrs fake it by putting the needle of the temp gauge in the middle for a wide range of normal temps. That way they don't have to deal with your kind. But for some reason BMW uses actual oil temp readout. In your case, the needle is more than half-way from 70 to 120, so roughly 95-100ºC. There's a lot of oil in there, so it mightn't ever get to the 120º mark, even in steamy Singapore.
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