Oil light warning

**Welsh_Andy** · by **Welsh_Andy** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:33 am

the amber oil light warning is coming on,yet oil change was done only 2 wks ago.its an intermittant prob.
dodgy sensor maybe?

**Spearmint** · by **Spearmint** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:35 am

Low level sensor in your sump.

**Smurf** · by **Smurf** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:10 pm

Did you put the same grade of oil you normally use in? Last year I put some thinner than normal oil in the V6 and that light kept coming on. I went back to my usual, and it's not come on again since. I can only think the thinner oil I used was too thin for the sensor to properly detect it.

**Welsh_Andy** · by **Welsh_Andy** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:45 pm

<div class='quotetop'>(Smurf)</div><div class='quotemain'>Did you put the same grade of oil you normally use in? Last year I put some thinner than normal oil in the V6 and that light kept coming on. I went back to my usual, and it's not come on again since. I can only think the thinner oil I used was too thin for the sensor to properly detect it.</div>
i always use vox 10W40 mainly cause its gd stuff,plus its less than a tenner with TC

**malcolm_jamesuk** · by **malcolm_jamesuk** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:09 pm

Mine did exactly the same ....and turned out to be a dodgy sensor in the sump.. it should not matter rearly what viscosity the oil is for it to sence it as it works on oil level....

regards and happy new year

**Welsh_Andy** · by **Welsh_Andy** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:53 pm

well if its sensor,it be the 1st to go down.hope this isnt the start of a free for all sensor failure:sob:

Oil light warning

Oil light warning

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