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Originally Posted by v40bart
Agreed. The hottest place that the oil encounters is turbo shaft and bearings and underside of the pistons.
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And only then the turbo shaft if the car has one. The rest, i.e. the lubrication ports in the cylinder head or the bearings of the crank, are so short "lived" that the oil will quickly cool down again.
That is why an oil temperature reader would be the cleverest thing to have in a performance car or at least a car with a little bit of "omph"
Though modern cars, like the V70, S80, V60, S60, XC60 and the soon to come V40 don't have water gauges anymore...