Young man, you need to slow down!

I know I'm going too fast in a turn when the oil light on my Porsche 914 (same
basic engine as an air-cooled van, but with an oil windage tray which doesn't
always work effectively) goes on momentarily. It's nothing to worry about, though,
as it lasts only a few seconds and there is adequate lubrication during that brief
time period.

On a Vanagon, however (obligatory Vanagon content), I doubt that anyone would want
to take a turn fast enough to make their oil light come on! This would probably
result in a roll-over!

Dan Schmitz

Matthew Pollard wrote:

> This has happen to me when driving my mom's 95 Jetta. The car humms (and i
> have one ticket to show for it!) but i have had to buzz on me when doing
> hard banked turns going on the freeway (Where: El Monte entrance on to
> southbound hwy 280 in Mountain view Ca).
> CHeers
>
> Matthew
>
> Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
> Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
> University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, karen brown wrote:
>
> > 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
> >