can i throw a proverbial spanner in the works here, i doubt very much that it is caused by **** lodged inside the engine, if you had bits floating about in there big enough to cause an obstruction you would well and truely know about it

Oh yeh. Never really though about that! lol

If there were "bits" big enough to block the switch then they would also clog the oil pickup etc!

Never mind

Swapped it over this morning... what a load of fuss over nothing.

Forgot just how much above the sump it is and only got a tiny dribble of oil so didn't even need to top up the oil again.

The old one looked like the original one so its a few years old I guess.

Hopefully all will be well now!

Phil

Just a thought - when did you last change your oil filter? If that's been in there a while it could easily be causing enough of a pressure drop to make the light come on at idle.

Incidentally, I used to have an old Hillman (similar sort of technology to the Skoda engine - all good old basic 1960s sort of stuff!) that had terrible oil pressure at idle and lowish revs. Never gave me any trouble over about 40,000 miles before some London taxi drove into it and bent it beyond any extent I could be bothered repairing.

Its a brand new oil filter as I've just done an oil change.

Phil

All that fuss over nothing

Well... what can I say...

At least you got it sorted Phil

That I did! And that's all thats matters really.

Thanks Guys!

can i throw a proverbial spanner in the works here, i doubt very much that it is caused by **** lodged inside the engine, if you had bits floating about in there big enough to cause an obstruction you would well and truely know about it

The switch is controlled by a capiliary; it just takes one speck of carbon in the wrong place to make it flicker and give spurious low pressure indications. Been there, done that..., and on a car that had had oil changes every 6_000 miles.

Yep... well after a couple of days of the light on it started to flicker then stopped coming on.

Changed it and been for a decent drive yesterday and no problems so far! (touch wood!)