VIDEO: When Oil Level Sensors Fail
Jason Stahl tells us how oil level sensors work as well as the conditions under which they can fail. Sponsored by Standard.
Oil Level Sensors – More Than A Warning Light
Oil level sensors have been used on import and domestic cars for more than a decade. Some of the first applications only monitored if the oil level was low using a switch attached to a float. The sensor would just trigger a message or light in the instrument cluster and only measured oil levels when the engine was not running.
