Oil pressure light flickers!
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Oil pressure light flickers!
1983 MK1 Golf GTi
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Oil pressure is good, according to the gauge. So I fitted my old single sender again and no more flickering light, and no more reading on my extra gauge either :cry:
I ordered a new twin pole sender and hopefully that should solve the problem.
greetz yal
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Does anybody know at what pressure the warning buzzer comes on at, I'm getting a faint buzz for a few mins after start-up although the pressure gauge looks healthy, reads 80+ psi, the gauge only goes up to 100 so figure this is ok, so is it likely a sender or earthing fault?
Does the type of oil make a difference? It's a 2.0 G60 using syntha silver.
Cheers, Derek
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Dexter130 said
Hi,
Does anybody know at what pressure the warning buzzer comes on at, I'm getting a faint buzz for a few mins after start-up although the pressure gauge looks healthy, reads 80+ psi, the gauge only goes up to 100 so figure this is ok, so is it likely a sender or earthing fault?
Does the type of oil make a difference? It's a 2.0 G60 using syntha silver.
Cheers, Derek
The light/buzzer activates if the revs go over 2200 and the pressure is still below 1.8bar at the oil filter sender, or below 0.3 bar at the head sender. However, the light/buzzer circuit is infamous for giving false readings, and the senders themselves get old and inaccurate over the years, with all the heating and cooling cycles… (yours may be newer, if they are the G60 ones - you might also check if they are the right spec for the light/buzzer circuit!)
That oil is fine - the thickness, or thin-ness of an oil only comes into the picture when the engine is very worn, assuming that it is the recommended oil for that engine in the first place, which it is, in your case.
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Expensive part, but now I also a working gauge again.
When started cold I have 5 bars pressure, and after a 60km blast I get 2 bars on idle. Thats ok?
Also fitted a new radiator today, damn everything seems to break down lately
greetz yal
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yal said
…When started cold I have 5 bars pressure, and after a 60km blast I get 2 bars on idle. Thats ok?
No problem, the oil pressure goes down as the oil gets thinner as it warms up.
VAG minimum pressure is 2bar at 2000 revs at 80 deg C, so 2bar at idle is fine…
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