Tag: oil pressure

Oil Warning Lights

Oil Warning One of the first idiot lights, the warning light to the far left, featuring an old-school oil can or what could be even Aladdin’s lamp, is the Oil Warning Light, either level or pressure symbol. Without the wavy line, your engine is telling you the oil pressure is too low. A wavy line below …

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All Those Lights on Your Dashboard: They’re Not for Idiots Anymore

The First Warning Lights In a simpler day, if your engine’s oil pressure dropped too low, your dashboard, or more properly, your instrument panel, would have had an analog oil pressure gauge displaying the pressure reading and a warning light, a red dot, that would come on to get your attention. Then some manufacturers did …

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