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Hi All,
Just a little story to amuse you all…
Sunday night, started the car and was just about to reverse out the driveway when the dash emitted a constant ping. This drew my attention to the dash which was displaying the oil warning light.
I checked the handbook which says “Park the car and turn it off immediately,” which I did.
It went on to say, check oil – I did, I had tones of it and it was clean. It also said it could be an oil pressure issue.
Spoke to my mechanic on Monday, he thought it would most likely be just a sensor, but on the safe side we both agreed to get it towed to him.
He plugged in all his gizmos and wizardry to find that the sensor was ok and there was indeed no oil pressure at all within the system.
Some Google searches, phone calls to GENIV specialists and Chevy have led us to the following conclusion, best case scenario, it’s the oil pump, worst case scenario there is internal issues in the engine/block itself which means either rebuild or replacement.
So, as of yesterday, my mechanic has basically pulled the front out of the car, and ripped the sump off. He did mention how clean and perfect everything looked so he does not believe it to be an internal issue. So this hopefully means it’s just the oil pump.
So now he is pulling everything off the front of the engine to get to the oil pump and replace it.
So, it’s pretty much been a week without my car and it looks like I won’t get it till later next week IF replacing the oil pump works.
Of course, she is 6 months outside of warranty.
Anyone have any similar stories? I will update this thread when I have more info.
Just a little story to amuse you all…
Sunday night, started the car and was just about to reverse out the driveway when the dash emitted a constant ping. This drew my attention to the dash which was displaying the oil warning light.
I checked the handbook which says “Park the car and turn it off immediately,” which I did.
It went on to say, check oil – I did, I had tones of it and it was clean. It also said it could be an oil pressure issue.
Spoke to my mechanic on Monday, he thought it would most likely be just a sensor, but on the safe side we both agreed to get it towed to him.
He plugged in all his gizmos and wizardry to find that the sensor was ok and there was indeed no oil pressure at all within the system.
Some Google searches, phone calls to GENIV specialists and Chevy have led us to the following conclusion, best case scenario, it’s the oil pump, worst case scenario there is internal issues in the engine/block itself which means either rebuild or replacement.
So, as of yesterday, my mechanic has basically pulled the front out of the car, and ripped the sump off. He did mention how clean and perfect everything looked so he does not believe it to be an internal issue. So this hopefully means it’s just the oil pump.
So now he is pulling everything off the front of the engine to get to the oil pump and replace it.
So, it’s pretty much been a week without my car and it looks like I won’t get it till later next week IF replacing the oil pump works.
Of course, she is 6 months outside of warranty.
Anyone have any similar stories? I will update this thread when I have more info.