Help with car issue please
01-26-2008, 04:14 PM
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Help with car issue please
'02 A4 1.8T
My car has oil light on with engine light on and oil level is fine. I'm thinking it may be coil pack but hear tapping/vibrating. Is it OK to drive?
My car has oil light on with engine light on and oil level is fine. I'm thinking it may be coil pack but hear tapping/vibrating. Is it OK to drive?
01-26-2008, 05:03 PM
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NO! If you've got an oil light and hear tapping, you've most likely got engine sludge. Serious issue
You neet to flat bed that car to a shop and have them pull drop the oil pan. The tapping you're hearing is probably at the top of the engine because your oil pump is clogged with sludge and starving the top of the engine of oil. If you keep driving it, you'll eventually burn our the motor and have a nice $4000 bill on your hands as opposed to the $1000 you're looking at for a new oil pump.
Have you been using full synthetic oil? Bought it used? Most likely, it's been getting nonsynthetic. Not good for 1.8t
Have you been using full synthetic oil? Bought it used? Most likely, it's been getting nonsynthetic. Not good for 1.8t
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