Date:         Sun, 24 May 1998 00:50:37 -0700
Reply-To:     Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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From:         Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Newbie with newbie questions (please be patient)
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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