Originally Posted by Phil

My car runs hot very easily. Today I was driving on the expressway, not excellerating hard at any time during the drive. I was doing 60 in 5th gear and the oil temp was 240. My car gets to 240 very easily and it is normally in the 225 to 245 range and has been as high as 255. I don't like this, it seems to me that this is hard on the oil as well as the engine. It spoils the fun of driving it. I'm very dissapointed in Nissan.