Leon Cupra R - Orange oil light illuminated

[Adam]

I went to drive to the station this morning and 5 minutes into my journey the car beeped at me and the orange oil light came on. I immediately turned around and left the car at home incase I was to do any serious damage. When I got home, I checked the oil and it barely (if at all) registered on the dipstick, not good at all! The oil was topped up by a garage last month so I can't understand why it's lost so much oil! My fault for not checking it....

So am I likely to have done any damage to the car? I have the car booked in for a service at a specialist next Friday but was hoping I could buy some oil to top it up in the mean time.

The car sounds fine, infact I had to move it off my driveway so my girlfriend could give me a lift to the station and the oil light didn't come on that time. The only noticeable different was a slight flatspot at around 2k revs when I was driving it this morning/last night.

 

[Adam]

Hang on, you mean you don't check your oil, ever? Assuming that it won't USE oil between services, and thus not checking, is pretty stupid.

Damage to the car is a possibility, but unlikely unless you were tanking it.

Nope, my own fault I know but I have certainy learnt my lesson.

I am getting 2L of the correct oil as an interim measure before my service.

Could the flat spot/juddering at 2k revs have anything to do with this or just where the car requires a service?

 

[Adam]

Ok will do, hopefully the specialists will be able to do that next week.

I'm very lucky and certainly a lesson learnt

And yes, it was topped up around a month ago and is now empty? Something isn't quite right.

Thanks for your help!

 

[Adam]

Fair point although I did watch him top it up although in reality I have no idea how much he actually put in!

My car is on 46k on a 54 plate. I was bloody panicing this morning, I really though I would have a big bill coming my way. We'll see what happens when I top it up!