SQ5 ‘Reduce Oil Level’ ?

Dan_G

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My car hasn’t been moving much recently. Short journeys to supermarket and that’s about it for a long time. It was serviced last year as per the book but I have not topped up the oil at all.

It flashed up on the dash ‘Reduce Oil Level’ when I started it. Thought this was odd. Wondered if a sensor had stuck - it’s parked on a drive with an incline - so drove it down the road to the flat and stopped turned off and had a look under the bonnet. Restarted and fault has gone.

Then drove around for an hour or so and it hasn’t come back.

SQ5 petrol.

Anyone else had this?
 
I had this on my s4 when I was doing short journeys. I believe in the s4 forum it was because it was only doing short journeys and the engine wasn't getting hot enough and causing water vapor in the oil (which normally gets burned away with longer journeys). I wiped the white gunk from the oil cap and never had the problem again.

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