Oil Pressure LOW @#$%!

[sclui56]

I remember reading about the ZERO OIL PRESSURE post from Jonahs so that was still fresh on my mind. Then 2 days ago, the minute I reached home I pulled up his post again – why? Because my 05 SUV with 10,600 miles just threw me a “OIL PRESSURE LOW” message with persistent chime, and it is now with the dealer.

2 days ago, I was stuck in L.A. traffic, suddenly I heard a couple of chimes and the low oil pressure message came up, then when I moved again, both warning disappeared but happened again several times in the next few minutes, all this time the engine sounded normal. Since I was in traffic, I called up my service writer, told him about it and as I am due for oil service fairly soon, I told him I would bring it in the following morning.

Didn’t think I was low on oil as I checked on the last fill-up coming home from Palm Springs the day before, but I pulled into a station & checked anyway. The level was fine. Then I pulled out and started driving, within the next few minutes (not even ½ mile later), I heard chattering sound coming from the engine, must be them lifters….. This time the warning sound and message wouldn’t go away. Pulled into a parking and called up the writer, at that point, I was about 5 miles from their location, he said to have it flatbed in instead of risking more damage, and that there will be a loaner when I get there. This was about 4:25pm. Called up On-Star & they switched me to road-side, gave all the info, waited, waited. Long story short, the darn tow service didn’t show up until 6:15pm, and this was after repeated calling, found out later they couldn’t finish the dispatch due to system problem. Should have used AAA on my dime

Got to the dealership 6:45 and no one was there, obviously no loaner was waiting either, The upside is that I ran into their Hummer master tech and he accepted the vehicle, turned the key and the engine turned over, simply said, “lifters are probably collapsed, but it’s good that it turned over”, then he said it could be a number of things but won’t know until they open her up.

Still waiting to hear back from them. BTW, the engine has no modification done, except for an Airaid Jr. kit.

Steve