On a rather spirited drive on my way to work yesterday morning at a chilly 6am the red oil light started flashing and bonging at me. I instantly backed right off and bought her down to crawling speed as there was nowhere to pull over. Immediataly as I backed off it stopped flashing. I crawled the last 2 miles to work and all looked and sounded fine. Oil level is fine etc and engine still runs smooth. Now I understand that it relates to a low oil pressure warning am I right? I had no choice but to drive her home although rather steadily and again all was well.

Now she is due a service (well actually 2k over due) which I was due to carry out this weekend anyway so I have ordered a new oil strainer pipe for the sump aswell as the o ring. Is this likely to be the problem and how much of a difficult job is it to do? I need the car up and running for work on monday morning so a garage isnt an option. Is there a walk through guide on here for doin the job?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Dazz

have you checked the oil level?

Yep, clogged oil pick up strainer for sure.

Change the oil pickup do not drive car again until this is done as it will cause turbo failure !!!

Bowders 1 did a how to in this thread, but the pics have been deleted.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/187391-all-octy-1-owners-please-read-this/page__hl__%20oil%20%20pick%20%20up%20%20strainer__st__30

Make sure you have the right tools before you start this, especially the 2 sump bolts at gearbox end, speaking from experience

This link may help, now Bowders pictures have vanished

http://www.ecstuning.com/stage/edoc/Oilpan10-12-2011.pdf

Bowders 1 did a how to in this thread, but the pics have been deleted.

http://www.briskoda....trainer__st__30

If you actually use the main guide I did in techi section, it is still good with pic's.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/191103-vrs-pick-up-pipesuction-pipe-replacement/

Got the garage to change it when he did my cam belt, he will no longer give me a fixed price apparently its a bugger to do on a Vrs lol

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30min job when under car

30min job when under car

Yup he thought only 5, just undo a few bolts lol

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Lol silly boy

Well I changed the pickup pipe today. Good job too by the looks of the old one.

Jez that is bad buddy no wonder you had red light on. looking at black colour not enough oil changes have been done on time. I would change oil again before due to clean the engine better.

I don't think it looks that bad actually... :think:

Yeh that was my thoughts. However it has got full documented service history and has been on fixed service all its life. Think im gonna start doing 5-6k interval oil changes aswell as the usual 10k services but will prob drop the oil in 2-3k time and do a change. Weird thing was the light only came on on Friday after a few miles of abuse and then went off. Limped it home and still no light. Im surprised it hadnt come on long before with the state of it or even worse popped something.

I don't think it looks that bad actually... :think:

Eh, sorry that is bad unless you are joking . ok particles do occur , but should not if regular oil changes happen and the fact that the pick up pipe is disscolured is evedence of not enough oil changes period.....

This is a pic of the one i removed with 137,000 miles on the car.

verses new which has only been replaced once on the history on the miles.

Yeh that was my thoughts. However it has got full documented service history and has been on fixed service all its life. Think im gonna start doing 5-6k interval oil changes aswell as the usual 10k services but will prob drop the oil in 2-3k time and do a change. Weird thing was the light only came on on Friday after a few miles of abuse and then went off. Limped it home and still no light. Im surprised it hadnt come on long before with the state of it or even worse popped something.

I think that is a wise move and will bring out the collected crud just in case and keep engine clean.

I am changing my oil every 3,500 to 4000 miles due to the local driving and start stop driving I do.

No I wasn't joking at all. I've seen an awful lot worse, and apart from maybe a little clogging on the gauze, it doesn't look worse that most engines. Not everybody babies their motors like we do.

If you think that's bad, you wanna try stripping proper working engines. A whole lot worse than that is not only normal, but perfectly acceptable. And with 6 monthly oil changes (under a strict service schedule). You show your average fork lift engineer a picture of that 'bad condition' pickup pipe, and he'll laugh at you as if you're insane.

No I wasn't joking at all. I've seen an awful lot worse, and apart from maybe a little clogging on the gauze, it doesn't look worse that most engines. Not everybody babies their motors like we do.

If you think that's bad, you wanna try stripping proper working engines. A whole lot worse than that is not only normal, but perfectly acceptable. And with 6 monthly oil changes (under a strict service schedule). You show your average fork lift engineer a picture of that 'bad condition' pickup pipe, and he'll laugh at you as if you're insane.

Yeah but a fork lift engine is not got a engine like a turbo charged petrol engine that runs a lot higher temps.....

I know I am OCD. I have stripped a lot of engines over the years and have been shocked at some things .

Yeah but a fork lift engine is not got a engine like a turbo charged petrol engine that runs a lot higher temps.....

I know I am OCD. I have stripped a lot of engines over the years and have ben shocked at some things .

Um, I think you might be surprised at some of the things fitted these days...

And we're all OCD. I know I certainly wouldn't be happy about it, and yes I would certainly do something about it. But it ain't really any worse than can reasonably expected. However, that does not make it particularly good news...

What oil went back in?

5w-40 fully synth 502 spec oil went back in. Will be dropping it again in a few tho and see what its like.

Oil changes need to be every 5k really on these engines, my pick up pipe was nearly blocked solid.