"02" Corsa - Oil light coming on

HannaB

Hi all,

My 02 Corsa had a full service and MOT at the end of March. Everything passed okay, no problems at all. I've done probably a thousand miles since then but now I've noticed a problem.

Everytime I drive for about 3 miles and, say, stop at a traffic light with my clutch down and handbrake on, my red oil light flashes and then comes on continuously until I pull off again. This seems to happen more on the warmer days we've been having recently.

I've checked my oil level lots of times and everytime it is sitting just on the MAX line. So I don't think that is the problem.

I've told my Stepdad and he has a very relaxed attitude to these sorts of things (whereas I'm a panicker!). He says that if I'm not leaking and there's no black smoke blowing out the back, I should just ignore it.

The garage where the car had it's service and MOT is in Nottingham (where I grew up, everyone in my family takes their cars there and have for 10+ years) and I live in Reading. Therefore, it's not a local place I can take it back to.

Does anyone have any ideas on what this could mean and what I need to do?

Thanks

Hanna-the-Panicker!! (:p)

Just_Incredible

Could be your oil pressure switch

best way to find out is press your brake and accelerator pedal while turning the key to position 2 on the ignition

the car spanner should now flash, take a note of the four digit code, in flashes

ten flashes mean 0, the rest represents its number i.e 1 flash = 1

after that depending if theres anymore codes stored it might bring up another code so be prepared to write it down aswell

then once you have a code e.g 0136, just google it or post it on here and someone can point you to the right direction what is wrong with it

if the car has no fault codes, the spanner light will keep flashing until you release the brake and accelerator pedal

mchale

As above, its most prob oil press switch, get it sorted ASAP, as if a real prob occurs with oil you wont know about it & worse case scenario engine F****D

zappahey

Is it possible that the oil pump is worn and cannot achieve proper pressure when the engine is hot and idling but it makes full pressure when the engine is at higher revs?

Premier_2

The oil warning light illuminating at tickover indicates low oil pressure. As the engine revs up, the pressure increases and so the light goes out.

Possible causes:
1. Low oil (but you've checked that)
2. Wrong type of oil (wrong viscosity)
3. Lack of servicing (e.g. old oil, blocked oil filter, blocked oil ways, etc)

or as others have already suggested

4. faulty oil pressure sender.

Bowdyjan18

Possible oil pump.

HannaB

Wow, I come back and there's lots of replies. Many thanks to all of you.

I've just tried the car-spanner-light-thing after my drive into work. It just keeps flashing. I left it going for a good minute trying to see if there's any long-flashes, short-flashes or gaps-between-flashes, but they're weren't, it just kept continuously flashing at the same speed.

Think I may need to take it to get looked at properly.

Thanks again.