The oil level circuit board in the instrument panel may beginning to go haywire. I fixed this problem by swapping in a later model fuel/oil/coolant gauge cluster, which contains that circuit. I think this is a fairly common failure mode. Mine presently comes on just when the oil level reaches the lowest mark on the dipstick, but it used to do it whenever I made a sharp lefthand turn.
On 6/14/06, Sunil Hari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was driving around town today in the 300D, and just as I got on the highway entrance ramp I saw the oil light come on. I immediately parked and turned the car off and waited a few minutes. As I turned it off, I saw that the oil pressure was correct, and after shutdown I confirmed that there was oil in the crankcase. After a few minutes of panic I turned the car back on, and the oil light wasn't on and the pressure behaved as it should. It didn't come on the whole way home (~3 miles). What the hell happened? Kaleb says it's just the car's way of telling me to check the oil.
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