2025 Ram 1500 Hurricane SO towing test

[Brutal_HO]

So my 2012 Audi S4 oil temps run at 230-235F at highway speeds. My assumption is that the water temp, which I can't monitor, is darn close to that. It's a 3.0L Supercharged 90 Deg. V-6. Obviously, not moving nearly the same weight but I've done oil sampling over the years and they've been perfect. I believe that modern synthetics can run safely all day at 250-260F. So 235F, no concern at all. I would say that the TFL towing test was brutal and 235F is perfectly fine and not too far above the 3.0L's normal engine oil temp of 205-215.

The 2.7T runs 250F under hard street/track use. My 03 A6 has 106K on it running K04's on a mild tune since about 30K with no other (engine) issues.

 

[BowDown]

People worry far too much about modern synthetic oil temps with little to no understanding that these oils are good to 500°+.
You're not stressing these modern synthetics at 250°

 

[RAL]

People worry far too much about modern synthetic oil temps with little to no understanding that these oils are good to 500°+.
You're not stressing these modern synthetics at 250°

Understood, but if you are getting oil pressure warnings then that would be a viscosity concern.

 

[HSKR R/T]

Understood, but if you are getting oil pressure warnings then that would be a viscosity concern.

The issue in video was a software issue, not an actually problem with thin oil

 

[RAL]

The issue in video was a software issue, not an actually problem with thin oil

The low oil pressure warning was a software issue? How do you know? It could be but an oil pressure gauge and sender is a relatively simple affair. Folks better be sure.

 

[HSKR R/T]

The low oil pressure warning was a software issue? How do you know? It could be but an oil pressure gauge and sender is a relatively simple affair. Folks better be sure.

Watch the follow up video by TFL where they talk to a Ram engineer. Their video is what made RAM look I to the issue and discover the coding problem.

 

[Brutal_HO]

The low oil pressure warning was a software issue? How do you know? It could be but an oil pressure gauge and sender is a relatively simple affair. Folks better be sure.

Most modern systems don't have a real oil PSI sensor anyway. They're on/off switches and the pressure is derived via algorithms in the ECU.

The Hurricane design lead was interviewed by TFL (and others) and said they addresses the issue in software.