At 11:42 PM 5/23/98 EDT, you wrote: > >Here's the problem: The vehicle is doing the oil light/buzzer routine. >Intermittent...but usually between 2200 and 2900 RPM after about a 15 minute >warm up. Got the vehicle this past week and haven't changed the oil yet. >Sometimes the buzzing just stops and doesn't start again until next trip. I >thought (perhaps rather naively) that this shouldn't be a huge problem because >both my Fox and Jetta started doing the same sort of thing at around 125K. >Both have been passed on to new owners and currently have over 160K and 200K >respectively (I like to keep tabs on my old VWs). When this happened to me it turned out to be a connector in the engine bay that had never been assembled properly - the little metal pins hadn't been seated fully (locking them) into the plastic holders; I'd suggest tracing the wires starting from each sender & checking every connector carefully. Austin |
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