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[QUOTE="Highbeam, post: 196710, member: 23735"]
This is why gauges are important. An idiot light alone would have left you with the decision of getting oil or ruining your engine. You had a gauge to tell you that enough oil be getting to all important places under pressure. You should have put oil in as soon as the light went on but it appears you will get away with it this time. Sometimes the sensor that flips on the idiot light is different than the sensor that tells your gauge what to read. It may be more sensitive and tripped after sensing bubbles in the oil pressure line when there wasn't quite enough oil for the pump and it sucked a gulp of air. Your pressure gauge has a slow needle so that it doesn't always bounce around, it won't indicate a brief loss in pressure.

Don't worry about a funnel, when the light comes on next time shut it off and add engine oil if it's low. Any brand or viscosity will get you home. You can clean the outside of the engine easier than rebuilding the inside. And another note, carry a concealed pistol in rough neighborhoods:D.

I vote for the "oops" when changing oil as being the cause of the low oil level.
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