Drivetrain Engine oil pressure error screen
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My first thought is that the oil level in your engine might be low. You could be going around a corner, and with low engine oil, the pickup tube to the oil pump is not able to get any/enough oil to keep the oil pressure up. When you're driving normally, the oil level is not low enough to register a problem. If you haven't checked your oil level, I would go out and check the oil in your engine.
#4
What year car do you have? Do you have a 2011+ model with that crappy new dipstick that's hard to read? It's very easy to misinterpret what your oil level truly is even on 2007-2010 MINIs. You're definitely low on oil. Even at the track cornering like a bandit on sticky street tires I don't get oil pressure warnings.
Make sure your car has had the engine stopped for at least five minutes. That will let oil from the top of the engine have time to drip back down to the oil pan. What I do is put the dipstick in the tube almost all the way in until I'm about an inch away from being all the way down the tube. Take it out and wipe it off. Do this multiple times until you don't see a lot of oil above the first bulge on the dipstick. The dipstick tube has oil that gets splashed up it when the engine is running. What you're doing is trying to remove some of that oil so you get a better idea of what you're true oil level is. Finally, push the dipstick in the tube ALL THE WAY DOWN. Wait about five seconds. Pull it out. You'll see the true oil level indicated on the dipstick. Rotate the dipstick in a well lit area so you can see the saturated area on the indicator. That is the level, not the area that's barely soaked in oil.
This is admittedly a really ridiculous process. But it works!
Make sure your car has had the engine stopped for at least five minutes. That will let oil from the top of the engine have time to drip back down to the oil pan. What I do is put the dipstick in the tube almost all the way in until I'm about an inch away from being all the way down the tube. Take it out and wipe it off. Do this multiple times until you don't see a lot of oil above the first bulge on the dipstick. The dipstick tube has oil that gets splashed up it when the engine is running. What you're doing is trying to remove some of that oil so you get a better idea of what you're true oil level is. Finally, push the dipstick in the tube ALL THE WAY DOWN. Wait about five seconds. Pull it out. You'll see the true oil level indicated on the dipstick. Rotate the dipstick in a well lit area so you can see the saturated area on the indicator. That is the level, not the area that's barely soaked in oil.
This is admittedly a really ridiculous process. But it works!
#5
Again Hi All
and thanks for your quick replay
Yesterday i went to workshop to change engine oil , when we check the oil level by dipstick we find only little bit oil !!!!!!
Did u believe that when we use suck machine oil , we have sucked only 1 LTR from engine ohhh my god .
The most important thing that there is no any oil leak under my car
BUT
Pleas see this PIC , there is a huge oil leak on this hose
It,s a 2010 Mini cooper s , with Typhoone K&N air intake , MagnaFlow cat-back
and thanks for your quick replay
Yesterday i went to workshop to change engine oil , when we check the oil level by dipstick we find only little bit oil !!!!!!
Did u believe that when we use suck machine oil , we have sucked only 1 LTR from engine ohhh my god .
The most important thing that there is no any oil leak under my car
BUT
Pleas see this PIC , there is a huge oil leak on this hose
It,s a 2010 Mini cooper s , with Typhoone K&N air intake , MagnaFlow cat-back
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