Oil Light & Buzzer on a 92 16v

[16v Matt]

Right, i'm guessing this has been asked loads, but i'm going to ask anyway.    In the last couple of weeks the oil buzzer & light have come on a few of times.  First time was shortly after going round a very sharp right hand bend very fast,  I turned the engine off straight away checked oil levels etc. All looked ok fired her up light & buzzer off.   So I put this down to the oil all being thrown to the side of the sump causing it to miss the pickup.   Then after a  real beating down some country lanes I was driving through my village at 20mph & the oil light & buzzer came on for a cople of seconds & went off again before I had chance to stop.      Then today as I came off a traffic island fastish it came on agian, turned the engine off & back on, no buzzer.   Then it came on once more just for a couple of seconds & went off again.  The car is full of oil, no leaks.    Just a bit worried it might go pop on the 20 mile drive home :undecided:  What do you lot reckon?


Oh & can I buy a tool for checking oil pressure??

[piggy]

I used to have a problem like this on my MK1 and that was down to poor oil pressure! 

However not to alarm you I have heard of peeps having problems with the oil pressure switch giving a false indication. Might be worth checking that out first.

[16v Matt]

Yeah that was my first thought as it has started happening very quickly, just don't want to run the risk of doing some long term damage

[piggy]

I threw in some of that Wynns stuff for "OLD" engines and it helped loads with the pressure.
It's not a real cure but it helps! 

Ended up selling it though for £200 

If it still happens after that then it could be the switch! 

[16v Matt]

Right just been out to the car park, am I right in thinking the oil pressure switch is on the oil cooler housing?   There's two there, one is pressure & one is oil temp?  Well the front one is pissing oil out

[piggy]

At least you've found the problem.

Sounds like it could be an easy thing to fix.

Did you have the bottom end worked on when you got the head work done?

[16v Matt]

No, it was just the head, got em to check the bores while the head was off, & they said the bores are in perfect nick.

[piggy]

Looking at the , err Haynes :embarassed: it looks like there's an oil seal on the switch. Could be that if you're lucky.

[maximous]

hi guys sorry to but in but im putting some guages in the car and just wanted to make sure that i get those two switches the right way around.

The front one is pressure and  the rear is temperature

Cheers max

[Gambit]

they are both pressure sensors on the oil fiter housing

the oil temp is on the back of the head with a green wire going to it