Faulty Oil Level Reading ?

[cslsuperfan]

Originally Posted by sfh3l

Hi Guys,
My Cecil went through a phase of the reading gradually going UP! I watched and worried and checked with my dealer as I began to wonder what was going on. My understanding had always been that the reading was the amount by which your level exceeded the minimum. The dealer said, "oh no, that's wrong. It's the amount you need to add to bring it up to minimum". I had forty fits and thought of all those miles I'd driven with supposedly low oil, so I added some. The reading didn't change at all. I then went back to them and spoke to someone else who said they didn't have a clue what the first person told me and that it was completely wrong. I booked the car in for a warranty change of the level sensor. They even messed that up by not filling the car sufficiently so that the yellow light came on when I was about 2 miles into the journey home!
However, once sorted the readings then remained at the required 0.8 for the rest of the time that I owned the car, which I stupidly then sold in 2012. All of that fag was before I started using Murketts and then Elms. Motto of the story is two-fold: the oil level sensor can play up and don't trust your CSL to just any dealer as most of them are muppets.

Agreed

some vet owners on this hallowed site think nothing of a European mileage drives just to get Gareth to do an oil change

Ahhhh that's love.

[terraphantm]

Originally Posted by Clubber

Hi, 0.6 on average reading or instant blinking reading while holding the sport button ?

Both. Sometimes the instantaneous read will be 0.1 higher or lower

[Mark CSL]

0.1 to 1.1 is all it reads on the display
0.1 min 1.1 max have it some where in the middle i ran mine at 1.0

[Clubber]

Originally Posted by terraphantm

Both. Sometimes the instantaneous read will be 0.1 higher or lower

Originally Posted by Mark CSL

0.1 to 1.1 is all it reads on the display
0.1 min 1.1 max have it some where in the middle i ran mine at 1.0

My instantaneous read is always around 0.9 or 1.0 and the oil stick confirms it BUT the average keeps dropping 0.1 in every 100kms or so. Right now at 0.4. Hence the mismatched level.

[73CSL]

did you find out what the problem was ?

My average was 0.7, just dropped to 0.6 after a 300 mile run ... but the instanst reading is 0.9