While driving into work on the highway this morning I noticed that the oil pressure indicator was noticeably lower than where I would expect it to be. (At highway cruise, it's normally close to the 3/4 mark, whereas right now it was closer to the 1/4 mark).
Since the indicator moves higher when the revs are higher, I decided to drop from 4th to 3rd, but this did not push it up significantly. A minute later, as I was still looking at the gauge, it moved back to its normal position over the course of about 5 seconds. It's now operating normally, but now I'm worried that there might be a problem. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal (I've never seen it happen before, but then again I normally don't really pay that much attention to that gauge while driving either)? Any ideas? (Last oil change was about 3000km's ago at the dealership using Castrol Syntec).
Since the indicator moves higher when the revs are higher, I decided to drop from 4th to 3rd, but this did not push it up significantly. A minute later, as I was still looking at the gauge, it moved back to its normal position over the course of about 5 seconds. It's now operating normally, but now I'm worried that there might be a problem. Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal (I've never seen it happen before, but then again I normally don't really pay that much attention to that gauge while driving either)? Any ideas? (Last oil change was about 3000km's ago at the dealership using Castrol Syntec).
