Hi everyone.

 

My oil pressure warning light (stop engine) came on while on the motorway at weekend. Had just driven 150 troublefree miles, stopped for fuel and as we pulled back on the motorway the warning came on. I know you are all immediately saying oil pump failure (Its the dreaded 2.0L Tdi engine) However The engine does not appear to have any of the typical symptoms I have seen with oil pump failure, I once had an Audi fail on the motorway and it rattled its arse off before seizing solid in under a minute!

My car sounds normal, and idles normal, We had to drive it gently about four miles to the next motorway junction, It stops,starts and idles normally, sounds fine when you rev it, no top end rattle at all? I brought it home by trailer to be safe and again it sounds fine when driving on and off the trailer, it idled for twenty minutes and still sounds normal

So could it just be the oil pressure switch which I think is below the oil filter housing, and is there any other oil pressure monitoring on this engine.

 

Also the engine has recently had a turbo replacement, (Supposedly good secondhand unit) cant see any evidence of leaks from the turbo or pipes etc and oil level is at full mark.

 

Any thoughts on testing the pressure, I know how prone these engine are to oil pump failure but can they maybe have partial failure which gives low rather than no oil pressure.

 

Cheers

 

Steve

Personally i would trust the engines ECU telling you that there is a problem and not your assumption that everything is OK and sounds fine. Get it scanned and look at what comes up. Keeping driving it would be a bad idea i think. 

I have had a similar problem recently.  I took the car to the garage and it is the old hexagonal drive problem.  My car is under 4 years old.  I wonder if anyone on this forum has had any help from Skoda UK because I am now facing a repair bill of about £2500.00