Evening all,

 

Just looking for some advice here, my 2005 (55) Fabia vRS has been showing and sounding the oil light and warning beeps most mornings this week when I get in and turn the engine over. This first happened about a month ago and with no top-up available until I got to work, I drove my 30-mile commute to work cautiously, arrived before 9am then checked the oil level after work at 5pm and topped up with half a litre before heading home. No warning light, no problem.

 

Scroll forward to this week and the light is on again, first thing in the morning, but disappears and stays off if I pull out of my downward sloping driveway a short distance down the street and then switch the engine off and back on again before making my way to work. The oil light remains off when I come to the car after work, where the car is parked on level ground all day.

 

The car was serviced and the oil was changed when I bought the car in February this year, and I've covered about 10,000 miles now so I feel it is due an oil change and probably a minor service (or is annual servicing more advisable)?

 

The car sounds fine, idles smoothly (as smoothly as a 1.9 PD does anyway), no unusual noises, no smoke, temps are all spot on and performance has not suffered.

 

Is the sloping driveway an issue? I reverse on and the car is parked nose down on a gentle slope overnight. Can this upset sensors re oil level?

 

Any advice or guidance would be great.

 

Cheers

 

There isn't an oil level sensor only oil pressure. I'm assuming its a red light (oil can) that is coming on and it beeps?

Are you sure it was serviced.

Sounds like a block somewhere?

Change oil as its due and see if it sorts it

Hi gang,

 

Service was completed with fresh oil and filter. Still get the same red flashing & beeping oil warning light on cold starts - obviously more noticable in these early months of 2014 - no effect on driving though, all seems fine other than an occasional warning light.

 

I've moved house (not because of the oil issue LOL) and park on a flat driveway now so ruling out anything to do with being parked on a slope...

 

Where do we go next?

 

Cheers

 

Si

new oil pressure sensor and or check the wire/plug??

might also be worth getting an oil pressure test to make sure the oil pressure is correct and dropping the sump to check if the pick up pipe is blocked

oh and my 04 has an oil level sensor

Hi all,

 

I know this was a year ago BUT it finally got sorted this week! I thought I'd update and post the solution in case it helps any of my fellow Briskodians. When the car went in (to a different garage this year) for it's annual service, the mechanic spotted that the turbo oil feed pipe had a minor oil leak and tightened it all up. Since then, no oil warning light!

 

Cheers

Lucky

Could easily have went boom