engine oil check ?

[Helen Goff]

having owned old Porsches for years. this is something (along with tyre pressure) that gets checked at least weekly. so i was somewhat worried when on the drive back from collecting my 356a from Andy prills in Essex, the "check engine oil" warning message appeared on centre dial of my 997 []
so we stopped at the next available safe place and waited the 4 mins so it would tell me just how low it was [:-]

only to find that it was full. so why the message ? []

god i hate these modern gadgets. what was wrong with a good old, old fashioned dip stick. [&o]

 

[garyw]

Helen
Its a time thing... mine requests this if I've not done the check for a certain amount of time..
I'm pretty sure its mentioned in the manual..

Dipsticks.. mmm oily rags and modern cars eh[]
Its quite simple to check once you are used to it, well I've found it to be [8D]

garyw

 

[Helen Goff]

as i said Gary.. all the basic's (like oil) get checked weekly on my cars. as you say it's very easy to do...............if you trust gadgets [] which is why i was so worried when this warning message appeared.

if it's going to cry wolf then i am likely to start ignoring it and thats not a good thing. [8|]