inspired to ask by
this current thread, I've got a question about the oil gauge.
When i first start the car, it'll hover around 4bar... then as the car warms, down to about 2.5 bar... the warmer it gets, the lower the reading. after driving for a good 40 mins to an hour, It'll get to a point where at rest it'll read 1.25 bar, and maybe 1.5 - 1.75 bar while at highway speeds.
This obviously isn't right. It's been like this in the near 2 years that I've owned the car... it was like this for the 2 years the PO owned the car... and I even talked to the guy who owned the car before HIM, who owned it for i think 6 years... middle aged doctor near town here and he said it was always like that...
so we've got these readings which have been constant for coming up 10 years now..
what do you think? Oil pressure sender? bad gauge? me being paranoid?
this thing loses maybe half a quart of oil every 7000 or so KM... and oil always looks great when draining (as great as old used synthetic oil can look at least)... No temp problems... no power/driving problems......
what do you think?