@Dazl1212 if you have the correct 'Owner's Manual' for your car it should give you (mostly?) the correct info (allowing for bad descriptions and translations and omission and errors, but apart from that 😀) as long as a Dealership or garage has played the shuffle with the books.

 

Other thing can be perhaps your car is a pre or post build to the copy of the book I put up - or simply a different model.

 

Tomorrow may tell - if it is the correct book you can learn a lot more from it than you may expect, with particularly later VW stuff it's best to refer to the relevant 'Owner's Manual' even for simple jobs you've for decades as things just get more complicated with time and the German car manufacturers love to show how clever they are by making things even more complicated, and sometimes failing, very, very rarely of course, and certainly nothing to do with slightly intermittent German engineer quality.  🤣  "I'll get me coat"

 

Edited 2 May, 20233 yr by nta16

27 minutes ago, Jocko said:

My model does not have an oil pressure light on the speedo/rev counter. I has a central Multi Function Display and this indicates low oil pressure if necessary. The manual reads: The warning light on vehicles fitted with information display does not come on after switching the ignition on, but only if a fault exists or the engine oil level is too low.

So in theory of the pressure was off, it wouldn't activate?

22 minutes ago, nta16 said:

@Dazl1212 if you have the correct 'Owner's Manual' for your car it should give you (mostly?) the correct info (allowing for bad descriptions and translations and omission and errors, but apart from that 😀) as long as a Dealership or garage has played the shuffle with the books.

 

Other thing can be perhaps your car is a pre or post build to the copy of the book I put up - or simply a different model.

 

Tomorrow may tell - if it is the correct book you can learn a lot more from it than you may expect, with particularly later VW stuff it's best to refer to the relevant 'Owner's Manual' even for simple jobs you've for decades as things just get more complicated with time and the German car manufacturers love to show how clever they are by making things even more complicated, and sometimes failing, very, very rarely of course, and certainly nothing to do with slightly intermittent German engineer quality.  🤣  "I'll get me coat"

 

If it turns out to be the oil filter, I'll feel very stupid for not knowing all this. But, being a student I'll get over it very quickly when I don't have to get another car. Although I'm only a student for a month and then I have a job lined up.

12 hours ago, Dazl1212 said:

So in theory of the pressure was off, it wouldn't activate?

According to the manual the MFD shows:

STOP OIL PRESS. ENGINE OFF! OWNER'S MANUAL!

if the oil pressure is low, accompanied with  an audible alarm.

16 hours ago, Dazl1212 said:

If it turns out to be the oil filter, I'll feel very stupid for not knowing all this.

Surely it should be the mechanics at the garages you asked or took your car to that should feel stupid and not you.  An experience with the motor trade to remember and learn from, no doubt along with others in the future unless you're very lucky.  At least it's not an expensive fix so all's well that ends well.

 

Edited 3 May, 20233 yr by nta16

5 hours ago, Jocko said:

According to the manual the MFD shows:

STOP OIL PRESS. ENGINE OFF! OWNER'S MANUAL!

if the oil pressure is low, accompanied with  an audible alarm.

Checked my manual, this is the one I have. 

1 hour ago, nta16 said:

Surely it should be the mechanics at the garages you asked or took your car to that should feel stupid and not you.  An experience with the motor trade to remember and learn from, no doubt along with others in the future unless you're very lucky.  At least it's not an expensive fix so all's well that ends well.

 

I agree, I just hope this is the issue. All said and done I'd prefer it as I'm not exactly flush at the moment.

36 minutes ago, Dazl1212 said:

Checked my manual, this is the one I have. 

Same sort of warnings as the page 78 of the other Handbook, at least you don't have any message so if hopefully it is just the filter then a good enough outcome.  As has been suggested if you can just change the filter then that seems the easiest and least expensive thing to try especially if you don't really lose any oil doing so as the garages you've been to seem not interested.

 

Good luck.

1 hour ago, nta16 said:

Same sort of warnings as the page 78 of the other Handbook, at least you don't have any message so if hopefully it is just the filter then a good enough outcome.  As has been suggested if you can just change the filter then that seems the easiest and least expensive thing to try especially if you don't really lose any oil doing so as the garages you've been to seem not interested.

 

Good luck.

Thanks mate. I'll keep you all updated ☺️

Hi all, so I promised an upgrade. I have in principle traded the car in for a Volvo s60 D3.

 

Not the update I think many wanted but it was driving me insane.

 

Thanks to everyone who commented and tried to help, it really was appreciated.

I had an S40 and loved it. Hope you have a similar experience with the S60.