Hi all,
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I have to admit I'm begiiiiining to feel like I've bought a bit of a ringer of a 2 as I've had quite a few little niggly problems of late, so no one needs to highlight the fact!
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3 days ago I went out for what may be termed as an
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'enthusiastic' drive across some of my favourite local roads.
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Car handled very well, and so on, lovely.
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However, when I was on my way back home warming everything down the oil level light came on.
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Thinking it was a case of
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"oh crap, I must've burned a bit of oil" I pulled over immediately and checked the level
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(not that I was expecting it to tell me too much anyhow) but I did and the level was just next to the full marker.
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I found this pretty strange, either way I was about 2 miles from home and decided that I'd limp home, let the car cool off for the night and top her up the next day.
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To be clear, this is the amber Oil Level Light
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- not the red one on the left of the dash
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The next day I read the level, it was bang on between max
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& min
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- right where I left it when I serviced the car about 4,000 miles/4 months ago
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- the oil was still a pretty reasonable pale ale colour too.
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I also got a friend to test it as well, just to make sure I wasn't being stupid.
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I came inside, did a little bit of research and deduced that the sensor was probably on it's way out.
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Either way, I decided to take the car for a little exploratory drive to see if the problem reared its ugly head once more.
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I found that the car needed to get warm before the light came on.
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The light came on as I went round a roundabout or up a hill and stayed on until I either found a hill to drive down, or a sharp left hander.
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Still, getting un-nerved at the oil light on the dashboard and the feeling that the sensor might actually have been responding correctly, I retired the test.
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The car didn't sound knocky at the start or the end of the drive, responded reasonably well although I didn't rag it.
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This morning I took the car down to a mechanic, to see what he had to say.
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As luck would have it he's closed on a Saturday so I went back home.
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About half a mile away the light came on, and stayed on till I got home and turned the car off.
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I thought just for the craic I'd then read the fault codes
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- maybe a sensor was throwing something up.
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But alas
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- it was clear.
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I just started it about an hour ago to put it up the driveway, and it wouldn't turn over.
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Nada.
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It cranks and cranks but doesn't catch.
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Beginning to crap an impressively sized pile of building materials I have hit the internet in search of some sole hope that it's not completely dead.
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