5/ 30 what you use Castro lol I can believe you forgot you have done a lot on your car ! Congratulations maybe make video on the best things that works on mini ?
My oil pressure light turn out to be failed oil pressure sensor. It failed after 4 days and 1500km! Oil pressure now measured and new (more expensive) sensor installaatio.
I’m having a similar problem , but I’m already running a high grade of oil 10w40 to be specific , but once the engine gets hot I get low pressure not sure what to do from here
The two easiest things I would do first is use an OBDIi to monitor the engine temperature and see if can read the actual oil pressure; and just go ahead and change out the oil pressure sensor, it may have drifted.
I didn’t change my pcv umm ugg i’m worried about using this oil it’s Castro and I was gonna try 505 oil Treatment although the owners manual says do not ever use oil treatment I do not have any leaks thankfully so far so good I have had no problems out of my car until that thermostat although on the NSD a book it talks about recalls on second generation well actually convertibles they did Recall r56
Changing the PcV on my car was easy n cheap; i figured at 93/94,ooo miles, why not. Just last season i swapped out the thermostat as it was going bad.. Aaaaaaannnd just last week the O2sensor went bad.
I’m thinking of adding a electric oil booster pump I’ve fitted a oil cooler as when the oil temp reaches 100c I’ve no pressure. So I’m thing of running the oil pump to the oil cooler line . What do you think?
Try a heavier oil first. Don’t know how many miles on your Mini, but mine was over 100k when I was getting low oil pressure at engine temp. I think over time all the gaps in the engine just got wider - wear and maybe not so great of an engine design and manufacturing
@@mcmcminicooper hi yes I used a much thicker oil grade it worked ok then I added some chromemoly. I think if I could lower the running temp to about 80c that might help it. It’s only when the oil reaches 100c there’s nothing. Maybe a thermo coupling to operate the thermostat set to 80c ?
@@kilogolfbravo9567 I another one of my videos where I changed out the thermostat assembly someone had a comment. They wondered why Mini had such high thermostat opening temps because another car, I think another car sold in Europe uses the exact same thermostat but has a lower opening temp. I could only think of that they made the high opening temp in the US is because of emissions. If you want the thermostat to open sooner, rig the heater element in the thermostat assembly to come on manually. This will force the thermostat to open I believe. When Spring comes around I’m think of adding a resistor to my temperature sensor in the thermostat assembly to trick the computer
Hi there , I have a 2009 mini cooper. After 35-40 minutes drives , when idle the oil light blinks every 5-10 seconds . If I touch the gas to get the rpm up even at 900, it stops. Does anyone have any idea on why this happens ?
It’s because your oil pressure has dropped to zero. Try a slightly heavier oil. An OBD2 wireless reader to see what your engine temp is doing and other things may tell you what’s going on
Thank you Bought it the Company said that clean front valves I haven’t done on that blast.. I seen SCoTTY he like it but he hates just about every car except Toyota! Lol BMW/ mini ..🙄😂 he is quite clever with many things just curious sometimes over and clean can cause leak! Don’t want that ! 🤞so far no oil leak! 🤞🤞🤞‼️
