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Originally Posted by billwot
The oil light usually means the pump is not flowing any oil. No fuel being delivered, no big deal...no oil, now that's a pretty serious condition. Your probably only a few minutes from serious damage. When the fuel light comes on, you usually have 1-2 gallons remaining, when the oil light comes on, the oil pump is probably cavitating.
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That is why I mentioned above that the engine will likely detect AVCS response errors before the oil is so low that the oil light comes on steady.
If the oil is leaking very slowly (like a dripping drain plug) then the pump will start cavitating early on during cornering as the oil pickup pulls some air and this will be infrequent at first, but get worse slowly as the oil leaks.