Live and learn. Now you know. --FT Sent from iFōn
> On Mar 11, 2024, at 11:09 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Wife's car (VW Jetta) has been alerting (annoyingly) about the oil level > sensor. It was intermittent and has slowly gotten to the point that it was > alerting every few minutes while driving. Code was "intermittent implausible > value" so I assumed the sensor had failed, as that is my experience with VWs. > Sensors fail. > > Ordered one from FCP Euro, watched a YouTube video, easy enough job: drain > the oil, disconnect the sensor, remove three nuts holding the sensor in > place, pull it out, put the new one in, reconnect, refill the oil. Looked > like it should take 30 minutes max. > > I had considered that the problem might be a bad connection but the connector > was in place, not loose or damaged. So I went ahead with the sensor > replacement. As I was reconnecting it, out of the corner of my eye I noticed > what looked like a cut in the split-tube cover on the wiring. Sure enough, > there was a cut. How in the heck it happened I don't know. The car has a > splash guard so nothing could have snagged it. I change the oil with the > extractor so I've never had the splash guard off until today. I guess at some > point someone had it off and managed to snag it or slice it and cut into one > of the wires. > > So I didn't need the sensor, but at this point I've already installed it and > it's all oily so I can't send it back. > > I soldered the wire back together and covered the splice with heat shrink > tubing. > > Then I notice that oil is dripping from the drain plug. It was dry when I > removed it, and I had torqued it back to spec so what the heck. I tightened > it up more and more until I started to get a little uncomfortable. It has one > of those sealing washers that was pressed on so you can't easily remove it. > So I decided to run to Autozone and get a new drain plug and washer. Drain > oil again, install new plug, refill, and it's still leaking. I finally just > kept tightening it about 1mm at a time until it finally stopped. > > Kicking myself for not looking at the wiring more carefully. Would not have > had to drain the oil or change the sensor and would have saved a lot of time > if I had only noticed that cut first. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
