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Old 10-11-2005, 12:17 PM
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Low Oil Light?
Just for curiosity sake I was wondering how low on oil do you have to be for the warning light to come on?

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Old 10-11-2005, 12:52 PM
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enough to check it, I think it's 1.5 quarts (barely on the stick basically)
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I think its lower than that-I would say more like at least 2 quarts low if not more.

Is there a particular reason you are askin?
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mine was all the way down on the dipstick and my oil guage was reading fine and now light came on.
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the sensor is fairly notorious for going bad 9from reading forums it doesn't nmatter what kind of car it is all of them have the issue)
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