Vauxhall Astra help !!!! oil pressure light comes on sometimes

Car: Vauxhall Astra
Variant: 1800 sri new shape
Model Year: 2004
Categories: Electrics, ECU, Warnings & Lights
oil pressure light comes on (the orange light not the red level one)have changed the sensor and flushed and changed the oil,made no difference,any ideas what it might be? fixes?anyone had same problem,seems to happen on corners more.oil level is fine.
Posted: Oct 21, 2011 (13 years ago)
Check for lose connectio on oil pressure switch but it sounds like you oil pump is going down. I would check this out by putting a pressure guage into the switch port and see what it reads against figures in your manual.
Posted Oct 21, 2011 (13 years ago)
Hmm,only on corners?
I think before I'd price a pump/fitting I'd have the sump off,there''s a wire mesh strainer on the end of the oil pick up pipe and I've seen these so choked you cant see the mesh!!
Posted Oct 21, 2011 (13 years ago)
i thought that about the mesh but i was hoping the engine flush would of sorted that out?do you think it might not of cleared it if it is blocked?
Posted Oct 21, 2011 (13 years ago)
prone for oil pickup pipe fracturing on mounting so it is only getting oil from part way up the pie and not the strainer so when you go round a corner it starves of oil for a moment.after you have straightend up does the warning light go out again ?
Posted Oct 21, 2011 (13 years ago)
My opels oil light stays on after we replaced the oil pump cleaned the mesh at the bottom of the oil pick up. What else can be wrong if the oil light stays on.
Posted Jun 20, 2014 (10 years ago)
I have the same problem but my oil stays on and the lifters are making a terrible noise like it has no oil. Replaced oilpump and cleared mesh on oil pick upbut it still doing the same thing what can we do next?
Posted Jun 21, 2014 (10 years ago)

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