Doing 150mph, then looked at the oil pressure!
05-14-07, 07:18 PM
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Doing 150mph, then looked at the oil pressure!
Tonight i felt like relaxing behind the wheel
So headed out to the runway, car was running well and warmed up nicely.
Accelerated up to 150mph when i looked at the instruments and noticed the oil pressure had gone, Zero!!!
Stopped checked what i could in the dark with only a mobile phone light. Still have oil etc. Still runs fine, drove 15 miles home no overheating.
I'm thinking that this must be a sensor fault, what do you guys think?
So headed out to the runway, car was running well and warmed up nicely.
Accelerated up to 150mph when i looked at the instruments and noticed the oil pressure had gone, Zero!!!
Stopped checked what i could in the dark with only a mobile phone light. Still have oil etc. Still runs fine, drove 15 miles home no overheating.
I'm thinking that this must be a sensor fault, what do you guys think?
05-14-07, 07:24 PM
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Is it working now? I've heard of the gauges doing that before. In fact, my stock one did it once, dropped to 0 so I revved it and it started reading correctly again. Been fine ever since. Anyway, guess it could be the gauge or sender maybe.
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as long there are oil, then you are fine. check frequently.
05-14-07, 08:12 PM
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well i had same problem but i wasn't doing 150mph and pressure didn't go that far down but it was low and just replaced oil sensor easy fix and i had oil allover bottom of engine and buy sensor
05-15-07, 01:24 AM
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i was looking around in the 3rd gen section by accident today and a few guys were talking about oil pressure gauge problems, i know that doesnt help you at all lol but maybe mazda really hates oil pressure and they think you should too =D
anyway yea my pressure gauge is broken too, i have to get around to fixing that...
anyway yea my pressure gauge is broken too, i have to get around to fixing that...
05-15-07, 02:09 AM
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Here's my dilemma... My oil pressure guage all of a sudden dropped all the way to 0 while I was drining to work yesterday, and about 30 seconds after that the oil sensor buzzer started screaming at me. I pulled over as soon as possible and popped the hood to find oil everywhere and smoke from it burning off. I poured 4 quarts of oil in it and drove it straight home (about 4 miles) and what's weird is the motor seemed normal on the way home other than the buzzer going off, all the oil I poured in was coming right out, and it smelled like burning oil. It still ran fine though with a good idle and clean acceleration. What do you think happened? The oil sprayed all over my engine bay points to something serious and expensive. Any ideas?
05-15-07, 05:45 AM
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Tonight i felt like relaxing behind the wheel
So headed out to the runway, car was running well and warmed up nicely.
Accelerated up to 150mph when i looked at the instruments and noticed the oil pressure had gone, Zero!!!
Stopped checked what i could in the dark with only a mobile phone light. Still have oil etc. Still runs fine, drove 15 miles home no overheating.
I'm thinking that this must be a sensor fault, what do you guys think?
So headed out to the runway, car was running well and warmed up nicely.
Accelerated up to 150mph when i looked at the instruments and noticed the oil pressure had gone, Zero!!!
Stopped checked what i could in the dark with only a mobile phone light. Still have oil etc. Still runs fine, drove 15 miles home no overheating.
I'm thinking that this must be a sensor fault, what do you guys think?
I think you speedo broke...150mph, yeah right. Don't you kids use kilometers????
05-15-07, 11:35 AM
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Here's my dilemma... My oil pressure guage all of a sudden dropped all the way to 0 while I was drining to work yesterday, and about 30 seconds after that the oil sensor buzzer started screaming at me. I pulled over as soon as possible and popped the hood to find oil everywhere and smoke from it burning off. I poured 4 quarts of oil in it and drove it straight home (about 4 miles) and what's weird is the motor seemed normal on the way home other than the buzzer going off, all the oil I poured in was coming right out, and it smelled like burning oil. It still ran fine though with a good idle and clean acceleration. What do you think happened? The oil sprayed all over my engine bay points to something serious and expensive. Any ideas?
05-15-07, 02:55 PM
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I have actually done 160 mph indicated speed, but of course thats during the day when i can drive with the lights down! See as i have actually topped my car out I know the pop-ups being up is worth about 10mph from your top speed.
By the way guys today i got my pressure guage back for about a miniute then died again, Least for a while i was reading a healthy 60.
05-15-07, 03:02 PM
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