Oil pressure light flashes in display, but oil pressure is ok, even new sensor

Finnie1967

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Hi Everybody,
I have a problem with my Audi A4 B6 1.6 from 2003, in the large middle display I have a warning: Oil pressure with big letters and a blinking image of an oil can above it. It starts when the ignition is turned on and I drive away and won't stop until I turn off the ignition. The car has been to a Audi specialist garage who has measured the oli pressure ( was ok, at 4 bar ), made a reading from the boardcomputer ( nothing reported ), replaced a piece of wireing ( there was a doubt if the malfunction could be in there ), and placed a brand new oil pressure sensor. Also all the wireing between the boardcomputer and the display in the dash was tested, no problem found there. Still the warning won't go away, it comes back every time I use the car accompanied with three annoying beeps. According to the mechanic the motherboard at the back of the display ( could ) be the one that's defective, but can't tell for sure. This "repair" has cost me REALLY a lot of cash until now, and the problem is still not gone away. Does anyone on this forum dealed with this problem ( or something close like this ) before and possibly know of any solution? I really rather know for sure before I throw any more cash at it, and replace the whole dash unit.
thanks in advance,
greetings Finnie
 
just get a sh dash pod dont buy new
have it coded
or send your dash away to be checked.
 
i have just had a very very similar thing and it turned out to be unrelated to the oil pressure sensor and more to do with the coding of the instrument binnacle i managed to sort mine out
where are you located and do you know anyone with vag com vcds ???
 
i have just had a very very similar thing and it turned out to be unrelated to the oil pressure sensor and more to do with the coding of the instrument binnacle i managed to sort mine out
where are you located and do you know anyone with vag com vcds ???

Hi dualmono21,
thanks for your reply, really appreciate it! I live in the Netherlands near Amsterdam. I know somebody with vagcom vdcs, but when I took my car to the garage last time ( see original post ) they hooked the vdcs on the computer in the Audi, but didn't find a problem with it. Can you please tell me what the vdcs turned out on your Audi??? Hope to hear from you, thanks a lot,

greeting Finnie!!
 
Hi Turkster,
Thanks for your reply. if you mean by oil pressure switch the oil pressure sensor, as you can see in the original post, this was already replaced for a new one. If you mean something else, please let me know.
Greetings Finnie