Can anyone tell me how to clear this error code. Oil is full. After reading all of the threads it states hold down menu, cancel, guide buttons for 5 seconds. That does not seem to be working on my 2012 TL? Any help would be appreciated.

 

undo negative battery terminal?

 

had the same on my car - dealer replaced oil pressure sensor


(oil level was fine)

 

Oil pressure switch tend to go on these vehicles for some reason. Pretty common actually.

 

Happened to me too - replaced sensor (under warranty).

 

out of warranty and just missed the extended warranty

cost $95 I think

and had the use of a 2016 MDX that steered itself down the highway for a few days

 

Does the car have the fluid level sensor in the auto transmission?

 

It's on both cars.

 

Sensor? Wish that was my problem. I now have the dreaded oil burn issue. I'm now adding a quart every 1,250 miles. Fortunately the car was not burning oil for the first 100k, unlike others who started at 45K.

 

Hey JasonK,

Thanks for the reply.
What I meant to ask was that if the auto transmission has the ATF level sensor in it. If the transmission fluid level is low, would I get a warning message?

Thanks.

 

Don't think there is a tranny oil level sensor. OP was posting about his Engine Oil. Not tranny.

Think you have to check manually with the dipstick.. which isn't hard

 

Great news! My Acura dealer (Curry Acura of Scarsdale, NY) has given me a good will replacement of the oil pressure switch despite having 52k on the clock and also agreed to order a new joystick (which has been bothering me for years.) Both of these conditions were reported to the dealer before the warranty expired.

 

Glad I could be of help.

 

Sorry to bring back an old post, but am a newbie here and just bought the TL I have been searching for! 10+ years as BMW owner and was on 3 BMW forums so not REALLY a newbie to these complex cars. When I test drove the TL (2009 w/ 61K miles on it) I simply missed the information alert to check engine oil level. I would think Acura would have an engine oil low level sensor AS WELL as a low oil pressure sensor qas who wants to lose enough oil to finally trigger a low oil pressure sensor? Conversely, coud have full crankcase and poor oil pressure for a myriad of reasons. Thought my TL has both a low level warning and a low oil pressure alarm?? Why would a car with a check oil level alarm get an oil pressure sender? I AM an Acura Nerwbie, but my 2002 540i with 250K miles on it which I still own and drive has NEVER had to see the inside of a steelership service bay as I am the only person I trust to work on it! Help me understand why a faulty oil pressure sensor triggers a "check engine oil level" warning please someone. I have to correct this!! Bill

 

Sounds like two phrases that describe the same thing... Low oil. If the oil is full then just replace the sensor.

 

While I truly appreciate your time taken to read my post and reply, as a BMW owner and car aficionado of all makes, I find this unthinkable of what is purported to be a high-end car! We are accepting that a bad or faulty pressure sensor, that is NOT giving me a "low oil pressure warning" (critical x 10), sees oil pressure as acceptable, but can infer oil level is low! That is ludicrous. As a retired manager of a huge steel company with a masters in EE, I am questioning whether I placed too much faith in Honda. Having found the TSB which addresses, I BELIEVE the faulty oil PRESSURE sensor to be the culprit as oil is clean and full to very top of dipstick. I am NOT attacking the messenger!
Let's look at an analogy here. Let's say you have a rural home on well water. I have owned many such houses within the last 20 years as my employer moved me like 11 times in my career (!). Now let's say that my well pump is starting to fail and my water pressure in the home is starting to fall due to the low pressure of a bad pump. Would one assume well is going dry?? Could one not differentiate this falling pressure as maybe pump failing rather than running to drill a new well? Would it be reasonable for the homeowner, dealing with low water pressure in the home, being lead to believe his well is running dry? Remember that we are now dealing with a sophisticated car that tells us more than a well water system would have! We are supposed to be able to trust what car systems are telling us until we have reason to believe otherwise. If I have a "low engine oil level" alarm, I want that indicator to be driven by a LEVEL sensor and not a pressure switch that does not light a low oil pressure indicator. Am I asking for too much here. And conversely, I was a pressure switch which is usually a linear or semi-linear transducer to tell me as such. An on-off switch is nothing more than an idiot light. It is either on or off. Why did hot rodders install gauges to see oil pressure and not an idiot light. Well pumps nearly always have a pressure gauge on them so a homeowner can infer what is really going on with his system. The well pump pressure gauge does not try to infer state of water table! It may be that well is going dry, but it does not suggest this. It only tells owner that his pressure from pump is low or whatever. If water in home is weak, but pressure gauge at pump is good, then I can look at water table issues first or crimped hose yada yada. You all get my drift. Pressure is not necessarily an indicator of poor volume available to pump. Could be, but our system in Acura sees low oil pressure (ACURA calls it an oil pressure switch, not me) AND TELLS US oil level needs to be first place to look.. Is it reasonable from a design perspective, for a car-maker to design, and spec. inputs of their choosing, their specification and their integration in a CRITICAL operating system, to "see" a faulty feedback signal from a sensor THEY label as an oil pressure sensor to NOT illuminate a LOW OIL PRESSURE ALARM (read pull over and shut off immediately), but instead only interpret via THEIR message system to driver that oil level is indicating LOW? Sure, low oil level could cause oil pressure to be low as well, but they don't show any error to make one elieve that. I sense Acura treats this sensor or switch (is it a linear transducer which would function like a pressure gauge differentiating oil pressure as variable or is it simply an on/off switch like what would drive an "idiot light"? just alerting the car owner to believe he is down enough oil to not trigger a switch-just down a couple quarts? If a sensor sees what it thinks is low pressure, why not light low pressure indicator and SES so driver pulls over right away? Volume and pressure are two entirely different things in science just as volts and amps are. Don't ever confuse the two! Car obviously has a REAL pressure sensor for oil pressure, as true low pressure signals not only "oil can" to flash or stay on, but it lights SES light as well. In what world does a supposed pressure "switch" be a suitable input that oil level needs checking with no low pressure alert? Thought we are told this is what this device does? Does it sense low oil pressure or not? Hope I have it somehow all wrong and Acura is better than this, despite putting on a TSB where they admit a chronic problem with a critical system, yet wants owner to foot the bill for their short-sighted design or parts source. Is this the first car I have seen in 60+ years that does not have a low level sensor and a seperate low pressure sensor and triggers only the one that applies. This defies any logic I can fathom as an EE and I pray we just have a terminology issue and that issue lies with Acura as the TSB even calls it a pressure switch. A true pressure transducer would NOT be a switch, but properly a sensor that can interpret a varying signal; as would be expected in a car with varying conditions such as temperature, rpm, etc.. I must assume that since neither oil pressure indicator lamp nor SES lamp illuminates in my car - only check oil level warning that this may be somehow related to faulty software logic? My BMW, which is only a 2002, has outputs from oil pressure and oil level hardwired to alarm lights and audible alarm which dings loudly, in addition to interfacing with car's OBDII system, as BMW does not want to chance a software fault or failure to fail to absolutely alert the driver that his engine could be ruined because the system failed to deal with a critical system issue. $40,000 cars just don't infer low oil pressure signals to be a low oil level problem (nor would a Chevy cruise!) So many things can cause low oil pressure while level is ok, at least for a while anyway. If I see check oil level indicated on a display, I am going to stop immediately and check oil level. Then, seeing it is full, I suspect a faulty sensor and drive on. What if I stop so quickly oil level is fine and then drops precipitously as I go further. I now have made a decision, say if I am on a trip, to dismiss it as oil was full! Boy that cried wolf. Oil level drops from that point and I do nothing and crankcase runs dry. Sure hope I can trust a REAL oil pressure sensor located elsewhere and designed by a Purdue grad. who had reliability, accuracy of indication, redundancy, and a pot-full of caution in his thought process! (I'm from Lafayette, IN. so go figure). I am new HERE and do not want to piss-off fellow members as my position does not raise comments like "why did you get an Acura if your BMW is so great" and the like. My BMW has 250K miles and it holds 9 quarts of full synthetic oil with a remote oil filter. I can despise some things the German's did when designing that car, but I can not see them ever mixing volume and pressure issues or having a sensor which indicates low pressure, but does not light a low pressure alarm, but instead might lead driver to believe it is safe to drive to nearest gas station-possibly 20 miles away with low oil pressure. Or, is this a translation issue Japanese to English and device in TSB really is NOT an oil pressure switch despite Acura calling it that and simply an oil LEVEL sensor??? Other than I, does anyone else not have a problem with this whole deal? Not to mention only a TSB and not a recall!!! I chose to believe that Acura NEVER treated this "pressure" switch (one by oil filter) as a true oil pressure switch. They rely on that determination from another sensor elsewhere on engine (I pray). I am disappointed in Honda to say the least. My car has only 61K on odometer and what else do I have to look forward to? I am scared to read others say things like "I wish my problem was just a sensor". I always though 3.5L was a workhouse of longevity and performance... Rant <off> Oh, are switches truly faulty (one TSB says to replace), is the replacement made with different performance parameters so less pressure is needed to make them "happy", or is real issue that software logic that interprets switch output at fault? The latter would assume this "pressure switch" has a variable output signal and not simply an on-off switch. Anyone care to set me right? I hope so! Do new switches have lower threshold to switch on-off? How do I not get just another switch with same issues? Help this newbie who thinks too much. Bill Lafayette, IN.

 

Sorry. Does this message board not have an edit or delete option. I was editing my post to be far shorter and before I finished, it posted so you have combination of what is more like a long post and then edited it down shorter, but must have hit "post" so you have a convoluted post that is sum of both and even longer as I did not delete as I fixed and replaced. I am very sorry for the confusion. Hope you all will still consider my points regardless of outrageous length.

Is there a way to edit or even delete one's own post AFTER posting to forum?? Usually the owner of post can post and then if they find typos or poor wording can post-edit or delete entirely. I am again sorry and embarrassed and can not chalk this up to being a newbie. Only newbie to this forum. Thought I had chance to fix. Did fix and shorten but went to post and it said it was a duplicate to what I posted 5 minutes earlier -(

 

You can chop up the previous long message and repost it again. Just by looking at the full page of pure text, gives me headache.