Hey guys, I'm James and this is mostly helpful and in today's video I'm going to be talking to you about this my ADA for an oil level sensor warning that's come up on the dash. So recently my car has been coming up with a warning on the dash and it's this symbol up here. It tells me that my oil is at a minimum level. Now conveniently my car also needed a service so I have just serviced it and I took out five litres of oil which I've been able to tell because here in this container where I've taken the old oil we're in about here. So four and a half just under five. Now that is surprising I wouldn't have thought five litres for a car that would normally take six would complain about having a minimum oil level. But I'm confident that having done a service and filled it back up with six litres of oil capacity is 6.3 on this car that that should be enough to extinguish this symbol. So a few minutes later and let's see what happens. Now symbol is still on. Maybe I need to do some more miles. Let's have a look. So as you've seen there the oil level sensor has not reset so I've parked the car on the flat and now I'm going to check the oil just at a absolutely certain that there is no problem there. I've left the car for 15 minutes just to let the oil settle back down. Firstly nice and clean from being serviced. So it's just a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of copper. So it's definitely got enough oil in no concerns about that. So the next thing to check is going to be this here. It's the bonnet catch. There's a sort of sensor in the bonnet catch down here. You can see some electrical wiring. Mine's got a little bit of copper showing on it. That might be the problem. So definitely need to investigate that because if the car doesn't see the bonnet open in this position obviously it doesn't know then to reset the oil level light. It seems a crazy system to me but without that knowing to reset the oil light will never go away. I think I've discovered the issue. If we have a look here just with this screwdriver. Where is it going? If I'd see I've just pushed that brain lead and it's snapped off just in there. We go that one. It's snapped clean off of this micro switch which is down here. Oh this is calm on. And that micro switch is what tells the car that the bonnet is open or closed. So as a final check regarding that bonnet switch when the bonnet is open as it is now that switch should be closed. If the switch breaks as it has it breaks open and that tells the car that the bonnet is closed. It sounds counter-intuitive but run with me. If I turn on the car obviously we get the light that we've been talking about already. But you can see the door is open. I've just brought the camera in. The bonnet is open but it's only showing the door open. Normally you'd see another symbol to show that the bonnet is open. If for example I go round and open the boot. If I open the boot like that you get this symbol showing that the boot is open but I don't have that for the bonnet even though the bonnet is open. And that proves that that switch has full gone open circuit and that is because those wires are broken. So you need a solution to that. Hold that down and turn the ignition on. Don't start the car and then press the arrow. And there we go we've reset our service indicator. So if I now turn the car off and I turn the car back on. I get the OK symbol and I have service instructions have gone. Interestingly that has turned out that yellow minimum oil light. And as I mentioned there's a video coming on that scene because I've got a problem with my bonnet catch. So what's going on there with the car? Well I think I've had a good think about what it is. I think the explanation is pretty simple. It appears that I genuinely was low on oil. I think car with 6.3 litres of capacity and then pulling out 5. Let's assume there's 0.3 left in the car. It had used a litre of oil so let's assume that that indicator was right. And there are two things. If your oil light it seems on these van cars comes on in between service intervals. The way the system knows that you've topped up the oil or knows to reset that it should go and check the oil level is by looking at the movement of the bonnet via that bonnet catch. What I've then done however is because my coincided with having a service I've reset the service indicator and that resets the light. So the fact that my bonnet catch is broken or the wiring to my bonnet catch is broken doesn't appear to have a difference. And presumably if you were in between the service interval and you were prepared to just reset your service indicator partway through, you could get rid of that light without needing to fix your bonnet catch. But if you don't want to do that then you need your bonnet catch to work. So that's what's happening. So I think in summary then there are two ways of getting that light to go off. One is to top up your oil, making sure that your bonnet catch is working and the other one as I've done unwittingly in this case is to service your car and reset your service. So thank you as always for watching guys. I hope you find that helpful and I look forward to coming to you in a new video with them very soon. Thanks a good bye.