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Hi tony MJ's computer illiterate and slighty sozzled husband here. I have been using the bog standard oil and filter in my current engine for the last 3 years, usually go for the mid range price wise ie not kwik save ultra thin cheap stuff. Anyhow changing oil I woul recommend the following: losen s...

Having checked the low pressure gauge we found that the old black one read 2 G and stopped the light flashing, but the new black one was a higher bar rating and made the oil light flash. We have now swapped it for a brown 0.15 - 4.5 bar gauge as advised by the GSF man. He wasn't able to say if this ...

My husband has now changed the two oil pressure switches, fitted a new oil filter and fresh oil. The oil light now flashes on and off. Prior to this the van had been driven 165 miles around town without problems. A local VW garage has suggested that the oil filter in the sump may be blocked up, anot...

Thanks for the useful advice Harry, I feel more confident about taking my old van to Ireland now. Part of our oil level problem is a constant oil leak which we have not been able to trace. I'm sure that the engine did not leak when it was in the car that it came out of. My partner has told me that h...

Hi, thank you all for the information re my original posting about my engine oil light flashing. I drained the oil and found that i had 7 lires of oil in the sump. I having been using my van for work - only clocked up about 50 miles but the engine starts great and feels good. I have taken the engine...

Thanks for all of ther information, its beginnning to make sense. I am really hoping that I overfilled the oil (after having had two engines go and then the oil light light up in the paSt , once the oil light went on i put oil straight in). If calibrating the dipstick means marking off 4.5 litres th...

Hi, On my journey back from Wales recently the dreaded oil light came on and off. I pulled in and toppped up with a litre of oil. Further down the road it came on and off again. More one litre top ups did not stop the oil light lighting up sporadically. I rested the van for over an hour, checked tha...