Swervin_Mervin
02-10-2007, 21:07
Last week on the way home the oil pressure gauge dropped to nowt. After cacking my keks and realising I had nowhere to stop, the thing then kicked back in but erratically. Sometimes not reading, sometimes reading but not moving etc, etc. I put it down to a feckered sender/wire.
But now some other problems are developing. Car has starting whine/screaching randomly and in pitch with the engine revs (not the PAS type whine), and it also sounds a bit grindy at idle.
When it got grindy the revs dropped. When it's not being grindy there's a clunky rattling and it sounds like there's a bag of nuts and bolts rattling round.
Meanwhile the pressure has been permanently there but lower than normal. so at idle it's been about 2 bar rather than the usual 3. Also it sometimes doesn't go up linearly with revs but stays at the same pressure.
Is the pump ready to give up the ghost for good d'you reckon? It all got much worse on the 8-mile drive home.
But now some other problems are developing. Car has starting whine/screaching randomly and in pitch with the engine revs (not the PAS type whine), and it also sounds a bit grindy at idle.
When it got grindy the revs dropped. When it's not being grindy there's a clunky rattling and it sounds like there's a bag of nuts and bolts rattling round.
Meanwhile the pressure has been permanently there but lower than normal. so at idle it's been about 2 bar rather than the usual 3. Also it sometimes doesn't go up linearly with revs but stays at the same pressure.
Is the pump ready to give up the ghost for good d'you reckon? It all got much worse on the 8-mile drive home.