Noobie with an oil light

[Junkyard_Mad-Scientist]

I just bought my first SHO after coveting one since they came out. 2013 with PP 96k on the clock. I've had it less than a week and have fallen in love with the car. But it threw the low oil pressure light at me on the 2nd day. Then 2 days with no issues, then today it did it again. Only at idle, and I found slowly bringing the rpms up past 3k even at a stop it would go away when it came back down to idle. It's a gem green metallic SHO fully loaded and the first car I've bought for "me" since I became a father 11 years ago.

This is introductions so I'll stop it there and start searching the threads. I'm more curious how many have fixed it with a sensor vs an oil pump

 

[J persons]

Try the sensor first, it's cheaper

 

[kryptto]

I ask the obvious, check the oil level? If so how is the oil looking? If you remote start the car and stand behind it look for smoke. Then get yourself a OBDLINK EX and Forscan start getting codes from the car.

 

[Junkyard_Mad-Scientist]

I ask the obvious, check the oil level? If so how is the oil looking? If you remote start the car and stand behind it look for smoke. Then get yourself a OBDLINK EX and Forscan start getting codes from the car

No smoke, regular putter of steam on a cool morning. Oil is full to the top level inside the ok range. Car doesn't show any codes except for o2 sensor 1 bank 1 and bank 2. Replaced the sensor made it worse so I'm changing the oil today to something heavier

 

[kryptto]

No smoke, regular putter of steam on a cool morning. Oil is full to the top level inside the ok range. Car doesn't show any codes except for o2 sensor 1 bank 1 and bank 2. Replaced the sensor made it worse so I'm changing the oil today to something heavier

Be careful with thicker oil. The weight is important especially with the turbos.

 

[J persons]

Also, the cam phasers require a specific weight oil to operate correctly. anything heavier than 30 weigiht can cause them to malfunction.

 

[Junkyard_Mad-Scientist]

Be careful with thicker oil. The weight is important especially with the turbos.

I bumped it to 10w30, not a major difference but I dumped some lucas in it too, I can't imagine running 10w40 or 15w40 like the f150 guys are suggesting. Oil light stayed off for the 15 min hard test drive but popped on in the driveway at the end, and went back off and stayed off.