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The sensor is at the front next to the oil filter. It's carefully placed so as to be easily knocked when you change the oil filter and will give you a low oil warning. There is a plug sticking out of the engine block with green or grey connector going to it (can't precisely remember the colours as I'm at work).The cable has two cores but only one is used. It seems quite vunerable to being knocked when you remove the oil filter andneeds a bit of jiggling to get the contact back properly.
My EML doesn't come on with low oil level.
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19-08-2013, 02:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 19-08-2013, 02:59 PM by hachiroku.)
My engine management light doesn't come on if the oil level is low, it might be something else that is the cause of the light coming on in your case.
The oil level sensor is particularly sensitive, park on any kind of a slope and upon turning the ignition on the level indicator could read anything from full to zero, so it's always best to physically check using the dipstick like you have done.
Perhaps someone with a fault-code reader might be able to diagnose what is causing the engine management light to come on, strange that it should go off once you restart the car though??!
Having siad that, the Berlingo computer brain does seem to get a bit confused from time to time, I recently had the engine management light come on after running out of fuel, after a few days it "cured" itself and went off, and has stayed off since.
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I had the EML come on whilst on holiday about a month after we bought the car. No readily apparent reason although the wife had just plugged her mobile phone charger into the overhead locker socket. The car still ran ok so when I stopped I checked a few connectors eg. MAF and switched on and off a couple of times to no avail. Left it for 20 min and it was ok and has been since (hastily touches wood, black cat and unbroken mirror).
Oh and it seems to be really sensitive to not being level when the oil check is done when you start the car.
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Take it to a competent independent garage.
Avoid the main dealers.
Sounds as if your COM2000 unit (steering column switches) maybe broken.
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