My wife came home from shopping and told me her oil light came on. We immediately checked oil which was fine and very clean. It had been changed last month. I started the car with ease. No oil light. An hour later I drove her car a few miles on an errand. I wanted to see if the light would come on. …

What year Camry? The oil light meant no oil pressure. If the oil level on the disstick is close to normal then it could be a bad oil pump, sludge somewhere in the motor, or a clogged oil pick up screen in the sump area of the oil pan. Sometimes the AC compressor locks up. Since your oil light wa…

I’m not sure what you mean by “without notice”. The oil pressure light was your notice. I’m afraid there’s a pretty good chance the engine could have been saved had you stopped immediately when the light came on, as your owner’s manual instructs.

More info such as did you buy the car new, how often is the oil changed and checked, etc. The oil pressure lamps signifies no oil pressure and normally you would not expect a 90k miles Camry to have a pressure problem unless there is a root cause for it. This could be a shaky past maintenance hist…

We did buy the car new. Changed the oil regularly every 3,000 to 5,000 miles. Just changed all the belts and water pump a few months ago. Is there anything else that could cause the oil pump to fail other than sludge build up? Electrical issues maybe?

It’s not electrical with a seized engine. There are a few things that could possibly lead up to something like this though. A purchased from new Camry with only 90k miles should not have had a catastrophic engine failure if the problem is not due to engine sludging. You mention the belts and water…

Yes that included the timing belt. It’s a V6 engine. Not positive on the 2.2.

The V6 is the 3.0 so that weeds out one possibility anyway. Oil pumps seldom ever fail and if an oil pump fails then odds are the entire engine is wiped out. The reason I asked about a timing belt was to try and determine if there was a problem with that particular job that may have led to the curr…

Our mechanic told us today that the engine did have lots of sludge. I bet your correct in that the oil wasnt reaching the pump. The oil actually looked “too clean” when I checked the dipstick a month ago before all this happened. It should have been a little brown a least after a month and a half si…

Oil light meant no oil pressure. It was running just as if you had no oil in the pan. Seized it up

Oil light on then off then CAR DIES

Maintenance/Repairs

teachhk December 13, 2010, 2:50am 4

It’s a 2000 with 90k on it. What I mean without notice is the car started each time without any problems or noise. No engine knocks etc. The samething happened a few years ago and it was a dead battery. Oil light didn’t come on though. this all happened within a span of a few hours.

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