I have a 2003 Z06 and every now and then the low oil level comes up on the display. Dipstick shows it's not low and the oil pressure is good. I hit the reset and it goes away. There is no pattern to when it comes on and sometimes I go for days and it wont come on at all. Can anyone give some insight as to what might be causing this.

Thanks in advance

John

 

Could be your sending unit, although with the year model yours is, I think the sending unit reports to the body control module or it may have an instrument control module. To check operation of the modules, I would have to hook up my GM Tech 2 scanner to it to see. [8D]

 

Think hard about this: does it happen more just after you have really gone around a corner aggressively? Oil starvation is a problem if you corner a vette hard. There is a reason why GM went to a dry sump in the new ZO6 -- that is the one feature of the LS7 I wish I had in my wet-sump C5R.

 

I have noticed that when the car is parked on an incline sometimes it will come on when I first start the car. But even after driving a few miles I still have to hit the reset to clear it. At first I thought that it could be what your refering to as an oil starvation problem. However, I was cruising on the freeway, no hard turns just steady speed 70 - 75 mph and it came on again. About 10 miles after that it did it again same scenario. Got to where I was going and the car sat for a few hours and on the way back driving the same roads same speeds it never came on and that was about a 45 mile trip. Took it out the following day and it never came on. I know there is the proper level of oil in the car and I take better care of that car than my wife - so she says LOL... I feel safe in saying that it is not causing any mechanical damage and it's more of an annoyance problem than anything else but I really want to find out why this is happening.