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The oil pressure guage has started to play up, usually peaked around 4 bar and sat around 2.5 bar, now it works occasionally but tends to sit at zero and peak at just under 2 bar.

Any ideas what could be causing it? fixes?
 
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Check your interior light fuse... mine was blown when the oil pressure gauge started acting funny.
 
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Funny you mention that, the interior light has been intermittent sometimes too, didn't come on when I unlocked the car this morning but did when I turned it off. I'll look into that, thanks
 
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Mine does that too.. Worked fine for years now its hit and miss! No problem with my interior light either! Was thinking of putting in a defi instead, looks cool!
 
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I checked the fuse, all good, interior lights working fine too.
Guess it's just old. Whereabouts is the oil pressure for the gauge taken from? Is it an easily changeable sensor?
 
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You need to remove the oil filter first in order to get to the oil pressure sender. Its do-able to remove it without further disassemble of engine parts if you have an angled wrench (bent to reach the oil pressure sender) and small hands).
 
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