500 miles in a quattro

[pasquale pilato]

In my 1990 100 the oil light would come one after long
streches of highway miles, especially at high speeds
and warm weather.  I changed the oil with some 15-50
(I was using 10-30) and no not a problem.

ptp



--- Jim Haseltine <Jim at ur-q.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Fresh back from meeting Todd Phenneger and his
> friend Angela during their
> stop-over at Heathrow. I've put over 500 miles on
> the car today so I guess
> that the engine should be well and truly bedded in
> now.
> Noticed a couple of things though. A strange noise
> that appears to be coming
> from somewhere close to the ecu (by my right knee) -
> it starts at almost
> exactly 100mph and sounds rather like a relay
> cycling really quickly, abit
> like electric contacts arcing.
> Second one is rather worrying, about an hour and a
> half into the journey the
> oil light started playing up, not on constantly,
> just a number of brief
> flickers every so often. It was ok above 70mph but
> when I dropped to 60 it
> started again - at 30 it was ok. Once the car had
> stood for a while
> everything was ok again. Then on the trip back same
> thing happened - similar
> distance into the journey and on comes the light.
> Same pattern as before off
> at 70, flickering between 50-60 and off at 30.
> The oil pressure sender unit is new (less than 1500
> miles) - I suspect that
> I've got an intermittent short circuit somewhere.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Haseltine
> 
> 
> 


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