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Originally Posted by IamLegend
Quite surprised the M5's turbos did not overheat  . They most likely added an oil cooler as I heard (and even saw on this forum too) that the turbos overheat so easily, sometimes in a matter of minutes, if the ambient temperature is high enough. This is also one of those things that worry me about the new M3. The M5 is not really a track car, so it may get away with a turbo that overheats, but M3 is meant to be driven in track. With the current M3, you can drive until you run out of gas, nothing will happen. Maybe the pads will heat up a bi t, but that takes an extremely bad abuse and even with that it takes more than half an hour of non-stop usage (which can be remedied on the spot for very cheap), but this goes for any car, maybe even Porsche. |
Would you mind linking to this so called "overheat" issue?
I have driven the X6M at Road Atlanta in over 95 degrees with 95% humidity and never overheated. I have driven this M5 in Spain in a heat baked 95 degree track and never overheated. The turbos are cooled in many ways as is the engine. It is run in death valley and tested in a specialized facility to make sure everything is up to par. Considering that these cars were run non-stop for 3 days in a row by journalists and race car drivers with no issues I find the turbo overheat thing to be nonsense.
It's people that spread rumors just to hate on the movement of the modern car that are the issue rather than the car, the new M5/M6 are so much better than the previous models it is laughable.
There was a single instance of high altitudes, low oil and plain old abuse that caused an event but that is not the norm and any car would have issues with those circumstances.