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hi my little fabby has a hard life on the (crap) UK roads, and I have occasionally been known to bash the front wheels at speed on trash on the roads, hit occasional unmarked kerb etc (I know, I know) . now the steering shakes and vibrates a lot, I thought I had thought wheel balance weights had been lost, but it now seems that the steering arms are bent and need replacement. does that mean the tie rods or the other larger metal pressings. I need my little pal to be at his best. Cheers all

ok, one poster mentioned the spec for the 1.4 engine. Mine is the 1.2 HTP 12v as fitted from late 2003 onwards. is there a spec for that just checked haynes 2.0 bar 2000rpm engine oil 80C - and that is the minimum - no mention of a maximum.

thanks to everyone ok, the measurement was done by my local garage who changed the oil pressure switch and checked everything else before diagnosing it with a proper tool. i trust their judgement as they must have seen thousands of those engines over the years and have serviced the car. i would have to assume an oil pump fault ?

Ok . At what oil pressure *should* the oil pressure light illuminate due to excess pressure

After much headscratching we have finally found out the 1.2 64bhp 2004 is running with 4 bar oil pressure. (Should be half that). Anyone any ideas. It's a new one on all of us

is he green connector wtih damaged insulation the oil pressure switch ? (2003 12v 1.2 htp)

agreed its what they would say - its constant not flashing I will re-read the handbook but fairly certain the 'oil light' alert i am getting is only to confirm that the circuit is/is not working rather than oil pressure etc. in any case its done 2K miles without grenading, If anyone with a VCDS is local to Cheshire Liverpool North Wales, theres a drink in it for you !

sorry for taking up so much bandwidth everyone ! Heres some more photos I took this morning if it helps at all . what i understood from the code read was that it was an intermittent fault. Im new to these cars but it seems that some one has buggered around with the EGR valve and the wiring pretty inexpertly. whether the lambda sensor is original or not I dont know . Im going from Haynes which is not the most reliable of sources I have found in past.

Dealer reckoned amber EML light was not an automatic MOT fail anyway, as my car's not got things like antilock brakes.

I've taken the car back to dealer once and he scanned the system and cleared the EML fault only for it to come back 200 miles later. I'm a bit new to this digital world of Lambda sensors and all that.

Fantastic responses thanks. I bought the car due to the low mileage and FSH which included annual oil changes. Engine oil was as clean as a whistle and my strong feeling having read the handbook is that it it is a wiring fault maybe caused by the butchery with this lamdba sensor replacement.

all this engine management light and diagnostic stuff is new to me give me a well-sorted 136 rapid engine any day !

Hi guys as i previously mentioned I recently bought a 2004 fabia 1,2 htp. generally pleased with the thing with only 45K on the clock BUT ..... on the trip home the oil pressure function light starting beeping and flashing and does so intermittently now AND now the engine management is on permanently and coloured amber. Took it back to the dealer who cleared it once, when it re-occurred he started muttering about a new relay and said it was a VW 'VOR' part that was needed. Sounds like bull**** to me Anyway Im going to have to see if I can have him under the terms of the (limited) 3 month / 3k mile warranty , but would the EML light being on be an automatic MOT fail. I could probably clear it just before the test. When I had the AA patrolman out we had a kook with hte engine cover off and found the following . looks like someones been messing around with the wiring there !

thanks guys for your comments. I do like indars solution, although on my car it has the cubby hole underneath the radio cassette unit. still do able though, lets face it these are elderly cars now so I am not fussed about a bit of drilling. Most concerned with a stable safe mount where i can put phone and leave it