oil pressure gauge fail? or big problem?
12-23-10, 10:14 AM
#1
oil pressure gauge fail? or big problem?
Hey yall.
i wasnt sure if this was just a gauge fail or something that could be potentially wrong with my s4..
oil pressure gauge just sits there. it moves a little bit but not like it use to. car seems to be running fine. nothing out of the ordinary that i can see. no funny smell, or smoke coming from anywhere. i am a little overdue for a oil change, but thats about it.
should i be worried? anything else i can check to make sure everything is A'Okay?
thank you much in advance.
video attached shows a warm start up.
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i wasnt sure if this was just a gauge fail or something that could be potentially wrong with my s4..
oil pressure gauge just sits there. it moves a little bit but not like it use to. car seems to be running fine. nothing out of the ordinary that i can see. no funny smell, or smoke coming from anywhere. i am a little overdue for a oil change, but thats about it.
should i be worried? anything else i can check to make sure everything is A'Okay?
thank you much in advance.
video attached shows a warm start up.
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so i know what to look out for. just a little freaked out that all
12-23-10, 04:23 PM
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i have the opposite issue. when i drivee, warm or cold, the oil pressure rises almost to the top of the guage. but when i let off the gas it drops back down.
i drive a n/a s4. is this normal?
i drive a n/a s4. is this normal?
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12-23-10, 08:54 PM
#9
But whenever people come here asking about a funking reading on the oil pressure gauge 95% of the time it's the instruments not the oil pressure. The gauge is (usually) pretty much good for 0 psi, 100 psi, and "ok" psi. Maybe if you fix it it's fine.
The s4 temperature gauge seems fine unlike the insensitive s5. If you mean the coolant buzzer, afaik that tends to work fine too.
The s4 temperature gauge seems fine unlike the insensitive s5. If you mean the coolant buzzer, afaik that tends to work fine too.
12-23-10, 09:06 PM
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while that is all very vague
ima guessing its next to the oil pressure sender,, and is in fact a condensor/cap to attenuate the oil pressure signal
( slow it down and leak away any system RFI )
its usually a little black square thing that bolts to the gearbox on NA and to the firewall on turbo's,, near the oil pressure sender
ima guessing its next to the oil pressure sender,, and is in fact a condensor/cap to attenuate the oil pressure signal
( slow it down and leak away any system RFI )
its usually a little black square thing that bolts to the gearbox on NA and to the firewall on turbo's,, near the oil pressure sender
problems with a lazy/stuck low guage are usually carbon track issues inside the pressure sender
- it can be overhauled,, or simply swapped with another
problems with full range/ high signal all the time are often related to the lack of the line conditioner cap /filter and electrical noise saturation
