Oil light flickering

Asked by Sarai Jan 17, 2018 at 06:40 PM about the 2003 Subaru Forester

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

The car oil light started flickering when I
break. The light goes off when I press on
the gas. The oil levels are good, just had
the oil changed 3 wks ago. What can be
wrong with the car?

4 Answers

60

could be oil pressure sensor .or if lots of miles or beat hard oil pump could be bad.i lean towards the sensor.

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Are you assuming the oil level is good because it was just changed? Double check the oil level.

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Oil good ! Oil pressure sensor changed ! And still doing the flickering have the same car

175

I have noticed after 196000 miles on my car some of the indicator lights tend to come a little loose. If the car gets jarred around a lot i could see this happening. Its a process getting to all those lights behind the instrument panel. One of my speedometer lights would go on and off, I banged my fist on top of the dash above it and it came on several months ago and has stayed on so far.

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