You must have been really flyin'!  What you experienced is a problem but
usually only in race cars.  When you went through the corner, the g-forces
caused the oil in the pan to slosh away from the oil pump pickup.  Yes,
engines do get destroyed by this phenomenon.  There are expensive race
tricks to solve this, but the best answer is either slow down in those
curves or keep the oil sump filled a little higher.

Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: karen brown <kpb@GNV.IFAS.UFL.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 4:18 PM
Subject: oil light scare

> This is a Jetta question but I do have a Westy - yell if you must.  I was
> exiting the interstate on one of those hard curve exits and my oil
> light/buzzer came on.  It stopped as soon as I got off the exit ramp and
> onto the straight highway.  I checked my oil and it was fine, and there
were
> no further incidents for the next hour when I got home.  Is this a scary,
> bad, expensive thing? or no big deal??
> P.S.  If any of you know of an equally fine list for VW cars, please let
me
> know and I'll stop intruding on the van list.  I've tried the chat room at
> Rocky Mtn. Motorworks but no replies yet.
>
> Karen
> '84 Westy
> '92 Jetta
>