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Sandspider

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I am amazed.

I've had my car for nearly 2 years, and run the fuel tank very low several times. Never a sign of the low fuel warning light had I seen, and I just assumed, 24 year old car, it's not going to work. But yesterday, on the way to work, it happened!! The low fuel light came on!! [:)] [:)] [:D] (I will admit to being slightly concerned about how happy this makes me... :s)

Now it leads me to wonder if perhaps my low oil level light actually works too - perhaps I just need to not top up the oil for a little bit longer, and see what happens*... Oh dear, slippery slope!

*Possibly slurp slurp slurp Crunch crunch crunch [:(] [:(] [:(]
 
You're mad.

Decent enough chap, I'm sure, but barking. Utterly woofing. Completely Upminster. *


Oli.

* - Several stops beyond Barking.
 
I am pretty sure your car DOES NOT have an oil level sensor. It should come on to test when you switch the ignition on then go out when the engine starts. If the level is low it will remain lit. Earlier oval dashes of around the C or D vintage didn't have one fitted. For God's sake please revise your thoughts about not checking the level for a longer period.
 
ORIGINAL: zcacogp

You're mad.

Decent enough chap, I'm sure, but barking. Utterly woofing. Completely Upminster. *


Oli.

* - Several stops beyond Barking.
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Oli, you're a star - I hadn't heard that one before, but it's now securely filed for future use!! Having difficulty typing 'cos I've now got a fit of the giggles.

Chris
 
Thanks Oli [:D] (Hey, at least I'm still concerned about how happy it makes me! There is still hope...) Are you saying that no one else feels a strange sense of joy when something they thought was broken for years, suddenly works?! No? OK, just me then! Oh well, I've learnt more about London tube stops today at least.

Rob, don't worry, I'm not actually going to do that. I'm pretty sure that I don't have an oil level sensor, or if I do, I'm certain it doesn't work. I will still check the oil nice and regularly :)
 
Giles,

As Rob said, if you have an oil level sensor, it should illuminate on the dashboard as part of the start-up sequence. The red '!' and something on the left hand side saying "Oil Level" (or something - I can't remember precisely) will light up. Alternatively, if you look on the off-side of the sump you can see it bolted in, with wires going to it.

However, I suspect you don't have one for another reason. The sensors work on a float mechanism, and with time the float floats lower in the oil level, meaning it produces a warning when the sump is nowhere near empty. Mine comes on when it is about 1/3 of the way down the dipstick, and is even more sensitive still if you start the car with the nose pointing uphill. (In fact, even with the oil level 'full', if I start my car, drive it for a couple of minutes, then stop it facing uphill and start it again within a few minutes, the light will come on. Short journeys with cold oil mean that the oil goes to the top of the engine and takes some time to drain back, hence there being even less in the sump.) If your car had an oil level sensor then you would probably have seen it work by now ...

ORIGINAL: Chrishazle
Oli, you're a star
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I know. And such a good-looking one too ... ! [;)]


Oli.
 
Woo! It's not just me! [8D]

Oli, no - I definitely don't have one. When the ignition is on but engine off I get the red "!", the brakepad wear warning light, and something else on the lower left hand side of the dash, I can't remember what it is (I must have seen it hundreds of times, but no memory!), but it doesn't refer to oil.

When I first got the car, the oil level actually went below minimum on the dipstick before I checked it, as I thought some form of light would warn me when it was getting a bit low... I check much more often now!
 
ORIGINAL: Sandspider

When I first got the car, the oil level actually went below minimum on the dipstick before I checked it, as I thought some form of light would warn me when it was getting a bit low... I check much more often now!
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Sounds like that's the answer to your question then!

(As opposed to what happened to me shortly after I bought my S2 ... the oil level light came on and I was convinced it was using oil at an astronomical rate ... even called up the previous owner to gently suggest that when I had asked "Does it use any oil", he could have told me the truth! Then I pulled the dipstick out, did a bit of reading on here and realised my error [:mad:] )


Oli.
 
It's still theoretically possible that if it goes even lower, an as-yet undiscovered warning light may illuminate!

No, joking- I'm pretty sure I don't have one, and I don't let the oil get that low now anyway!

Cheers.
 
well, I'm pretty sure mine has low tyre pressure warning - I am currently driving rond on nearly flat tyres to test this theory out....

seriously - does anyone have a "lights on" warning buzzer? in this day of auto lights, I have accidently left it on side lights a few times... or didn't they fit them?
 
No mate you have to remember these cars as good as they are are off of the 80s. Lights left on alarms weren't even an option back then. It has been said before that you would think the two things sticking out the top of your bonnet would be reminder enough but I have done it!!! [:D]
 
Lights-on warning buzzers are pretty easy to build. A buzzer, a relay and some wire and you're in biz.


Oli.
 
Like all pub quizzes mate only easy if you know the answers. It also helps if you have a HND in Electronic Engineering [:)]
 
Whatever you do, don't buy an off the shelf lights on warning buzzer that boasts playing a 'melody'.

What I assumed would have been a drab, tuneless series of beeps certainly unlikely to cast aspersions actually turned out to be a monophonic passion killer that proudly beeped 'It's A Small World'.

Not a good thing to discover at the end of a first date...
 
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