warm engine oil light

Asked by cotexjunkie Oct 24, 2014 at 10:27 PM about the 1998 Volkswagen Jetta GLS

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

so for some reason my car over heated about a week ago i parked it checked it out
fluids wer low. after that it seemed to get warm fast but never over heat. now when i
drive it for about 20 minutes or so it  gets to about the 5/8th mark and goes down a
little but then the oil light starts blinking but not buzzing im not sure what is wrong.

i run 5w30 weight oil and the engine is around 190k miles

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cotexjunkie answered 10 years ago

i want sure because the oil light does not come on at higher rpm and the buzzer never comes on

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