My Gen 3 does the same and after long searches I just overfill it by about 500ml. I also use Delo 400 and it still does it. It happened two days ago - same conditions - early in the morning during an uphill the orange lights up for about 10sec and dies down - it does not come on again until the next morning, same place, same time - oil level on the max mark. It also got cold here very quickly two days ago, so I reckon HBannink is onto something with the cold-oil theory. It does not happen during the summer as easy.dwinter wrote:Roelf,
It only turns on when the engine is cold and I'm heading up an incline (even a relatively flattish one). When I'm back on level ground it turns off.
I can drive the same inclines with a slightly warmer engine and it doesn't come on.
For those who know Cape Town: I leave work in Mowbray, onto the N2 towards town, when I'm halfway up hospital bend the oil level light turns on, but when I hit the downhill bends on De Waal drive it turns off never to come on again on that trip. But if I'm driving home from the airport by the time I hit hospital bend the engine is warm and the light doesn't come on.
I think they added a bit more oil than standard on my last service because it didn't do this until I'd done about 5000kms...
Been crawling all over the Pajero yesterday to try and find an oil leak on the driver's side of the motor. Eventually decided to clean hands and come have a look at the Forum as it had me totally baffled and............ voila!4ePikanini wrote:I would definitely call it a maintenance item. It is a common failure noted on various forums. Thank goodness for the low oil level as the oil pressure switch was so faulty it wouldn't have shown low oil pressure. That would have been a R50k failure from a R70 part.
Mitsubishi charges R70 for the thing and it's a fairly simple DIY - now that I figured out how to get there. Removing the intake pipe, airbox and boost pipe takes 2 minutes (phillips screwdriver and 12mm spanner) and is a cleaner method than crawling underneath through the bash plate to remove the oil filter for access.
NOTE : Mine was a generic part that came out with a 24 socket but the genuine Mitsu one requires a deep 27mm socket.
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) It's now gone up to R 180-00 courtesy of Imperial.fouche wrote:......... About the switch, a small bugger that cost R80 at dealers, that can leave you stranded between nowhere and somewhere.
))Anybody that can shed some light on the Gen 4 and this problem?Jakes wrote:Is this problem a comon problem on the Gen3 only or does the Gen4 also have this problem ?