Golf VI - Orange Oil Level Light On: Checking Mask Opening Sensor and Broken Cable Solutions

Hello.
The oil level light (orange) has been lit for a few weeks. Since then, the search for the cause continues ... Of course, the oil level is all ok. Even in the meantime, I replaced the oil and filters.
Following the threads on our forum, I was able to determine that the cause lies not on the side of the oil sensor but on the side of the mask opening sensor. For a time, it was enough to open and close the mask and the light would go off. Unfortunately, after 2 days, it lit up again.
Yesterday I started to fumble in search of this sensor and broke off one cable from him. Now the light stays on all the time .... I wonder just why I need this sensor. If I would break off the prints, he would have to tie them off. Could it be the control that would go off and I would have peace? Or will I make a short circuit and it will be a problem? Tell me something please?

Described now more than once. The indicator light indicates low oil level. Opening the mask results in sending information that the driver has opened the mask and theoretically filled up the oil level (this is enough for 100km and again ignites). And does not a colleague sometimes have a sensor under the oil pan ??? . You can, of course, turn off this control but I do not recommend such surgery because it is quite important information. In the highline version should be in the bowl - right under it. I have already met with the fact that users pull the top cover of the engine and then the bayonet comes a bit deeper and the light does not shine. Good luck and give a sign for posterity what was with you.

The sensor under the bowl is supposedly, but judging by the symptoms it's probably not a problem ... I put on the sensor by the mask of the mask .... Of course, it would be best to replace it but the sensor itself costs a little and certainly the exchange itself exceeds my skills ...
Well, I'm not going to disconnect the controls. She must stay in case of a real problem with the oil. I would just like to disconnect one of the sensors connected to it. I do not know if I should rather connect cables or just the opposite ... or better not to do it ....

The problem is not in the mask sensor because you wrote yourself that after opening it for a while there is peace. The sensor under the oil pan is to blame. The cost of a new sensor depending on the engine from 150-300 PLN, but it will come cheaper than to cover the engine.

tomasz sadowski wrote:

The problem is not in the mask sensor because you wrote yourself that after opening it for a while there is peace. The sensor under the oil pan is to blame. The cost of a new sensor depending on the engine from 150-300 PLN, but it will come cheaper than to cover the engine.

I do not understand anything now
sorry, but are you serious? If I replace this sensor under the oil sump, the LED will stop lighting? Well, if I do not mention it, although I have the correct level of oil, I can peel the engine?
I am not too proficient in electronic-mechanical matters. I'm asking seriously because I do not understand.

Well from the beginning. The sensor indicates the oil level. This is early information for the driver that the oil level is low. That's why the driver does not have to look under the hood and check the oil level. Replace the sensor and the indicator will go out. Writing about the engine's seizure, I know from practice that the driver gets used to a given fault and he lives and drives it. You simply will not have reliable information about the oil level. Sensor replacement takes less time than searching the web and posting. If you can not go to the workshop yourself and it will get you in 20 minutes.

Many people killed the engine not due to lack of lubrication but low oil level. As it gets warmed up a little faster, overheated it loses its lubricating properties. The red indicator will not light up at all or it will be damaged anyway (it usually saves in short distances because the oil will run out before it overheats, the lubrication will go from overheating oil before the oil runs out and the low pressure will light). That is why you risk blurring.

As for habits - I will not agree. I also have a level sensor knocked down and so far I do not fix it, there is a bayonet, I just treat the car as if the system was not there at all. And every car I traveled, from one year to more than 20 years, at least once a week, control of fluids, from time to time lights, tires, I have such a habit, no matter how many and what indicators and controls it has and how many years and when the car is in a state. And those drivers who do not check manually often ignore the controls - examples from life, driving on the brigging pressure gauge - they are still driving, blurring the engine because the bulb has burned off the lamp, what the driver did not disturb, or driving with a glowing temperature indicator and indicator on the red the field - and the old driver - ended with the engine overhaul. And he still does not check.
I recommend each one periodic check. Everything breaks down once, the most tight system eventually becomes unsealed, the engine will eventually start to take the oil. Who controls with high probability will end up with a minor repair, sometimes a small repair, who does not, risking a complete destruction of the engine. Although in the event of a sudden oil leak on the route, this yellow indicator (or oil temperature gauge) is able to save the engine, but after all, the cars did not have it and they traveled.

Well ok, thanks. As for the oil sensor, I have no more questions. What about my unfortunate mask opening sensor? I stopped one cable with him ... There is almost no access to it. I can not solder. Can I tear the second one and give up this sensor?

You can cancel or repair it (change the zipper). The sensor is to show when the mask is open (in fis), to the oil and alarm indicator if you have one.

Well, I unhooked this unfortunate sensor by the mask and nothing like the light shines so bright ... It looks like you were right ... I need to replace the oil level sensor (.
Well, but yesterday I was at a nearby plant and they told me that such sensors for them is from 250 to 350 PLN ... I look at the Allegro and used here from 30 zlotys, and new from 80 zlotys ... Well, be wise here .. ..
I know the old rule: what is expensive is good, what is cheap is d ... Well, but 3 pockets in my pocket, unfortunately, for me, however, a big difference ... It's meaning to play in used, or maybe like it's originals and so better than new ones for PLN 80 ... ?? Do you have to give 300 zlotys and do not combine. What do you advise ??

I do not know how in your, but in my e46, substitutes and stimulants fall or are immediately wiped out (that's why I delay with the exchange). The construction is probably similar, it is rather not a simple swimmer (then it would only fulfill the bayonet task only without opening the mask). As you have self-discipline, repair what you broke with the opening of the mask, slowly put the sensor on the sensor and control the oil level as if your car did not have such a sensor. Only not to end up getting used to the fault.