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MkV Golf GTI oil pressure warning

  • 10-04-2011 11:33pm
    #1
    shayser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭


    Two or three times in the last few months an oil pressure warning has come on.

    Goes something like:

    Oil Pressure
    STOP
    Owner's Manual

    It beeps three times then goes off. If it makes any difference it has always been when I'm going round the same roundabout (at a decent pace), near where I live. Going in at 12 and coming out at 9.

    The oil level is fine. I'll be having it looked at but wondering if it's a faulty sensor or something rather than actual low oil pressure.


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  • #2
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    I've heard of lads having this trouble on track, its caused, during long, hard cornering, by the oil in the sump moving away from the oil pick up.

    The advice is simple....stop doing it, because every time you do you are starving your engine of oil for a brief moment which will begin to cause damage over time.

    There are sump baffles etc available to solve the problem.


  • #3
    shayser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭shayser


    Cheers, that explains it.

    I drive my GTI like a Polo from now on then! :)


  • #4
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    shayser wrote: »
    Cheers, that explains it.

    I drive my GTI like a Polo from now on then! :)


    Just go a bit handier in the corners methinks.

    Or fit sh1te tyres to it so you can't corner as fast:P


  • #5
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Are there no baffles in the sump? Where's the oil level at? If it's anywhere below max you could top it up.


  • #6
    couldntthink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭couldntthink


    I worked for VW in Johannesburg and they are crazy about GTIs over there. Worked on a lot of MkV gtis, some highly modified and driving the ring outta them, and never saw an oil pressure light coming on from just going on a roundabout or indeed several hard corners in a row. Something's not right. I'd have an oil pressure gauge connected and then drive, this will tell you if it's an actual pressure fault or a sensor/wiring fault. Could be a crack further up the oil pick up pipe that causes it to suck dry on a corner. But no reasonable roundabout/driving combination should ever cause this if the oil level is at max. Only if hard track driving or going round the roundabout 10 times at high speed.

    These cars give quite a few common problems but this isn't one of them. Get it checked properly ASAP.


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  • #7
    barney 20v
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭barney 20v


    I had a similar problem in my mk iv Gti last yr,,
    i went onto vagdrivers.net and got help straight away .. turned out o be the oil pickup in the sump was partially blocked...
    common problem on all the 1.8T engines so maybe its a problm on the 2.0 as well?


  • #8
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,092 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    If this is not your problem (which it probably is)....
    barney 20v wrote: »
    I had a similar problem in my mk iv Gti last yr,,
    i went onto vagdrivers.net and got help straight away .. turned out o be the oil pickup in the sump was partially blocked...
    common problem on all the 1.8T engines so maybe its a problm on the 2.0 as well?
    then this is the cause:
    shayser wrote: »
    Going in at 12 and coming out at 9.
    :D

    Not your ornery onager



  • #9
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    9 hours on the roundabout!!:D


  • #10
    shayser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭shayser


    I still have this problem after two visits to a VW main dealer. The first visit included a full service. They said it was because the oil level was low, but a week or so after the service (with close to full oil level) the Stop: Oil Pressure Low came on again when cornering. Went back, but they said they couldn't find anything wrong with it. I guess I'll have to go somewhere else.

    I will check the oil level weekly and keep it at the max mark and see if that makes any difference.


  • #11
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    Is it when cornering left or right or both??. Get them to put a trolley jack under it and jack it while someone sits in the car to watch the oil pressure.


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  • #12
    shayser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭shayser


    -Corkie- wrote: »
    Is it when cornering left or right or both??. Get them to put a trolley jack under it and jack it while someone sits in the car to watch the oil pressure.
    Now that you mention it, I think it might be mostly, if not all, right cornering. Does that make a difference?


  • #13
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    shayser wrote: »
    Now that you mention it, I think it might be mostly, if not all, right cornering. Does that make a difference?

    If the sensor for the oil pressure was on the left side of the sump that would explain whats happening. I dont know where the sensor is but I am sure its in the middle.

    Definitley wort a try though.


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