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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: stainesy on 25 February 2012, 09:10

Title: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: stainesy on 25 February 2012, 09:10

Got my car out of the garage today. Drove it round the corner to my house. And suddenly got a red warning on dash screen saying STOP. WARNING. Oil pressure. STOP STOP.
So I pulled over turned engine off. Checked my oil level and gave it a once over and all seems fine. Then started it up again took it round the block and the warning light didn't come on again.

Any ideas why it did that? Scared the fcuk out of me.

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: Wazzzer on 25 February 2012, 09:23

oil pickup pipe maybe?

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: jockgti on 25 February 2012, 18:46

its the warning i got when my pickup pipe needed changed and went away straight after i did change it

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: richw911 on 25 February 2012, 20:04

Dont drive it as said it could be the pick up pipe.

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: balderz on 25 February 2012, 21:26

oil pick up mate has same on my old golf be a load of sludge in bottom on sump  :sick: as said above dont drive it till you sort it prop need to change oil pump, oil pick up pipe and a oil change cost me about £200.00 if im not mistaken

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: Wayne on 25 February 2012, 21:38

Oil pick up pipe blocked or faulty sender.

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: stainesy on 25 February 2012, 22:34

it only did it once when i first got car out of garage this morning. been driving it all day since with no problem what so ever. the warning hasnt come on since that one time when i first started it.

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: cullygti on 25 February 2012, 22:51

best to get the pipe cleaned mate as ignoring like i did cost me a new engine  :cry: not all bad tho i got a very low mileage one in place of the fooked one

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: stainesy on 26 February 2012, 00:11

But wouldn't the warning like come on again if there was a problem?

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: cullygti on 26 February 2012, 01:06

yes and keep coming on to warn you mine did and i was booting it down the motorway late at night 4 hours away from home when it didnt warn me no more and seized the engine  :evil:  :laugh:

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: stainesy on 26 February 2012, 09:51

 :rolleyes:  :grin:
As it only did it once when I first started the car and hasn't since and been driving it about all say. Going to assume it was just a little fcuk up and that's it. If it comes on again then I will do something about it.

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: danny_p on 26 February 2012, 15:35

youd be better off calling it a warning  that should be acted on.

if your oil pressure did actualy drop due to pickup issues it will do it again and it'll do it for longer, problem is next time it come in your likely to in the middel of nowhere with no phone signal or just down teh road from home and will push on thinking it'll be ok.   it will then go bang

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: stainesy on 26 February 2012, 17:21

Where is the oil pump in the engine?

Title: Re: Oil pressure warning.
Post by: rockmonkey69 on 26 February 2012, 18:33

You'll see it once you open up the sump

(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j471/6rockmonkey9/53271560.jpg)