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All cars and engines smell when hot !
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With Mobil 5-30W oil, pressure winter/summer:
cold motor: idle 3/4 bar, @3000 rpm 6/7 bar
hot motor after ~ 10'/15' : idle 2/2.5 bar, @3000 rpm 4 bar
Dépends on external temperature, oïl,rev and oïl pressure sender.
http://www.talkmorgan.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/189255/Re:_Oil_Pressures_Query#Post189255
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Thanks for all your responses. Being the son of a retired mechanic (but no real interest at the time.....could kick myself now) I do find myself looking for issues which often aren't there.  Your feedback has been reassuring 
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Mine smells of coolant when hot. It had a coolant leak when I got it and I think it's the residue - I'm hoping it'll burnt off eventually.
And at hot idle, it's pressure is under 1 bar. Worried me but the handbook says that is normal
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the ford spec is min 1 bar at 800 rpm hot, min 2.5 bar at 2000 rpm and the blow off valve is set at 4 bar. see here
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Agree with Dave & Howard on oil pressures. Bear in mind, one bar is about 14 psi. Isn't it strange that Mondeo man will happily drive thousands of trouble free miles without a thought on oil pressure, yet once we have a pressure gauge, we start to worry! A case of too much information! Often the case. When the anenometer on my boat fails I dont worry about the wind. When it works I do worry.
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Interestingly , older classics had rows of guages to inform us , now those guages have disappeared from modern cars - less information from an information mad world !
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There have been complaints on some American forums that are fitted with oil pressure gauges that don't actually show the oil pressure: apparently they just move the needle to a "normal" pressure indication. A sort of binary indicator that either shows there is oil pressure or there is none. Apparently done to stop owners worrying about oil pressure. The same is said of temp gauges. Both my Golfs have shown 12 o'clock 'normal' on the temp gauge when warmed up, and never moved from that position. The capillary temp gauge on the MGB told the truth..........
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There have been complaints on some American forums that are fitted with oil pressure gauges that don't actually show the oil pressure: apparently they just move the needle to a "normal" pressure indication. Figures, they invented fake news.....(or was it VW) ps why fit an oil pressure gauge to an american Forum anyway 
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