Oil Pressure Symbol

[Chris-P]

My car went in to the garage just over a week ago to have the oil pressure symbol diagnosed. They said the oil level was low so topped it up & all was fine until today when the red oil pressure symbol came up again on the DIS. The symbol doesn't stay on permenantly but seems to be prompted when i'm driving at low speed >10mph.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

 

[LEE69]

Oil pick up blocked, pump failing or the actual oil pressure sensor could be faulty

 

[Chris-P]

Oil pick up blocked, pump failing

I take to check these 2 it's a sump off job?

actual oil pressure sensor could be faulty

Any simple way to check this one? Any ideas on the location in the bay?

 

[LEE69]

Get the garage to do an oil pressure check first. If that's low either pump or pick up, which is a sump off job

 

[HansfishS3]

Personally I'd get the sump off and have a look at the condition (would probably be worth changing the pickup pipe anyways its cheap) .....do not drive it while the light is on...even it if turns off, not worth the potential damage it could cause!

 

[Chris-P]

Would the garage have carried out an oil pressure test as a matter of course?

I had a bit more of a nosy today & found this pipe going into the intake manifold has been bodged back on. Is that anything oil pressure related?

 

[Smirky]

Depends on the garage I would say ,have you tried running vcds?

 

[Chris-P]

I've tried doing scan & found no fault codes. But i've not managed to do it whilst the oil pressure symbol is on.

 

[Smirky]

It should log any previous faults

 

[audismart]

Yep known issue, oil pick up pipe gets clogged with crud for poor servicing or long life service intervals, pipe gets clogged and starves the bottom end of the engine of oil and can seize the engine.
Had mine checked and cleaned 2 months ago as a preventative service.