Hi guys. I had a low oil pressure warning on my Toyota Auris and checking the dipstick, yes, it showed barely no oil. So I put oil in while the engine was cold. Was hard to see the oil level as it isn't very dark. The manual says to check the level by bringing the car to operating temperature then switching off and waiting for a few minutes to let the oil go to the bottom of the sump. So I switched the engine on, let it idle for 5 minutes, turned it off and let it cool for 5 minutes and then checked the dipstick. The level is way past the maximum marking by quite a bit. Is that ok though?
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. He said keep an eye on the oil level once a week for the next month to make sure it was just low oil and not a problem with the oil pump. He thought it was likely just low oil as there was nothing on the dipstick when I first checked it.
He said the amount of extra oil I'd put in wasn't too bad, he reckoned he sucked out half to 1 litre to bring the level down to maximum.
. He said keep an eye on the oil level once a week for the next month to make sure it was just low oil and not a problem with the oil pump. He thought it was likely just low oil as there was nothing on the dipstick when I first checked it. He said the amount of extra oil I'd put in wasn't too bad, he reckoned he sucked out half to 1 litre to bring the level down to maximum.
I hadn't checked the oil level for a long time but I'm going to keep my eye on it now. Car is booked for a service in a couple of weeks.