Check engine oil light?
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Check engine oil light?
I'm sitting at work so I don't have access to my OM, but I was wondering if C6's have a check engine oil light that lets you know if you're low on oil?
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I don't have mine handy either, but . . . if you cycle through the information tab, one of the things it brings up is oil life, with a percentage for how much "life" is left in it. I've changed mine with 30 to 40 percent remaining because of age (it's gotten a year old), so I don't know if there is a light that comes on when it gets to "0". I used to have a Chevrolet as a company car, and when it got to 5%, the info display showed "change oil soon", when it got to zero it showed "oil change required", but no idiot light came on.
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I don't have mine handy either, but . . . if you cycle through the information tab, one of the things it brings up is oil life, with a percentage for how much "life" is left in it. I've changed mine with 30 to 40 percent remaining because of age (it's gotten a year old), so I don't know if there is a light that comes on when it gets to "0". I used to have a Chevrolet as a company car, and when it got to 5%, the info display showed "change oil soon", when it got to zero it showed "oil change required", but no idiot light came on.
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I dealt with that last year Ed. The level sensor and engine oil temp sender is in the side of the oil pan on the wet sump engines. My oil level warning triggered even when my oil level was still in the safe range of the dipstick. My Z-51 equipped car has an engine oil cooler which takes an extra quart to change oil. I put in 5 quarts when changing the oil, then went on freeway and had the low oil warning. When I checked my dipstick is was just below 1/2 way between add and full and I added enough oil to take it to the full mark and the light and warning went out.
Last edited by Icecap; Dec 18, 2019 at 05:03 PM.
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I dealt with that last year Ed. The level sensor and engine oil temp sender is in the side of the oil pan on the wet sump engines. My oil level warning triggered even when my oil level was still in the safe range of the dipstick. My Z-51 equipped car has an engine oil cooler which takes an extra quart to change oil. I put in 5 quarts when changing the oil, then went on freeway and had the low oil warning. When I checked my dipstick is was just below 1/2 way between add and full and I added enough oil to take it to the full mark and the light and warning went out.
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