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just driving around tonight ,and my oil light started flashing,pulled over ,waited a moment , oil level a bit low ,toped it up ,now the light flashes sometimes , - oil pressure still reading ok as well ,but the light flashes ??
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My 86.5 does the same thing, though the gauge reads 5 bar when it should and 3+ bar at idle when warm as it should and the oil level is just right. Going to replace oil pressure sender, which is kind of a cheap shot in the twilight but not a bad starting place.
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Model year of your car?
Try disconnecring the negative side of the battery for a couple minutes. That should reset the warning light.
Try disconnecring the negative side of the battery for a couple minutes. That should reset the warning light.
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Originally Posted by stealth
Going to replace oil pressure sender, which is kind of a cheap shot in the twilight but not a bad starting place.
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my oil light started flashing
Is it a steady rythmic flashing like every second or two or is it a sort of irregular flickering.
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it a sort of irregular flickering , the warning light below the oil meter on the dashboard, i have some pressure, but not reading above - 4 when reving ,
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If it only happens when hot - eg after restart when you have stopped for fuel - it may be the oil pressure regulator. Happened to my S4 and had me scratching my head for a while but changing the sender fixed it.
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Originally Posted by FlyingDog
Why not test yours first? It's a standard VDO sender which reads 10-180ohms. With no pressure, it should read 10ohms. At the peak pressure for the sender/gauge it should read 180.
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it a sort of irregular flickering , the warning light below the oil meter on the dashboard
other time was fixed by topping up the oil which was low but not at the low level point yet.
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What type of oil are you using? I had tried 10w-30 which worked great in the winter, but had too low of oil pressure in the heat. My warning light would flick on at an idle, so I had to keep the RPM's up a little. Switched to the recommended Shell Rotella 15W-40 and all is well in sharkland.
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My warning light would flick on at an idle, so I had to keep the RPM's up a little
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Drmark wrote: "Type "Oil pressure warning ?? false alarm" into the search facility and you will see my thread and the fix."
A great thread, a real keeper, but ...
Trying that title gets:
"Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : ??"
As does trying "Oil presure warning ?? false alarm." Which is the _actual_ mis-spelled thread title.
Interestingly "Oil presure warning" found the thread, but not "Oil pressure warning".
But I tried that only for scientific reasons after I'd already found the thread by searching for Drmark's posts. Here it is:
https://rennlist.com/forums/928-forum/183135-oil-presure-warning-false-alarm.html
Oil presure warning ?? false alarm.
Thanks, Drmark
A great thread, a real keeper, but ...
Trying that title gets:
"Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : ??"
As does trying "Oil presure warning ?? false alarm." Which is the _actual_ mis-spelled thread title.
Interestingly "Oil presure warning" found the thread, but not "Oil pressure warning".
But I tried that only for scientific reasons after I'd already found the thread by searching for Drmark's posts. Here it is:
https://rennlist.com/forums/928-forum/183135-oil-presure-warning-false-alarm.html
Oil presure warning ?? false alarm.
Thanks, Drmark
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LOL : because PRESSURE is the correct spelling ( at least for some of us Brits
) , and forums do not have a spelling checker, so anything works!
Good luck with your problem, I chased a similar problem for a long time until I pulled the pod for an unrelated issue, and found the two small nuts on the back of the oil gauge were loose, as were many of the others.
I removed, cleaned and retightened and now everything reads ( and warns) about where it should.
Neil
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Good luck with your problem, I chased a similar problem for a long time until I pulled the pod for an unrelated issue, and found the two small nuts on the back of the oil gauge were loose, as were many of the others.
I removed, cleaned and retightened and now everything reads ( and warns) about where it should.
Neil