"Carl Gibbs" wrote in message
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"Doki" wrote in message
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The Golf's playing up. Must be because I've polished it.

When the oil's warmed up to 80 odd or so, the oil pressure lamp comes on
if the engine's allowed to idle. Rev it at all, and it goes back off.
I've previously had the buzzer come on a couple of times during normal
driving, (ie, above a couple of thousand revs, oil not stinking hot and
not cornering like a loon) but it's always gone off after a second. Oil
level is fine.

Pointers on whether this sounds like oil pump, dodgy electronics or the
bottom end of the engine dying would be nice.

Have you changed the oil recently?

Yep. Not myself. My dad decided to change the oil for the stuff he puts in
his jag without telling me to see if it made any difference to the buzzing
that happened before. ****ing hell. That's like a sentence written by Peter
of cinquecento fame...

Could be the pump, could be the pickup - have you given the sump a whack
recently? As Carl said it could just be a dodgy sensor. I would just go
for trial and error until it was fixed, but someone with a bit more
knowledge may be able to help!

Sump is new and unbanged.

As for the buzzer - wouldnt worry about it. My main aim when I used to
borrow my sisters Polo was to get that buzzer going. The little thing
just kept going (with knackered head gasket)

I reckon it's worthwhile getting a gauge as it seems the sensing system can
play up.