Thanks Leadfoot! I am a bit of a worrier so the more I think about this the more I'm wondering about it. It seems the oil pressure warning light is pretty useless if it only comes on after the pressure has dropped dangerously low! but that explains why I never saw it come on. Thats useless really.
As for driving the car hard; I don’t do that but I do remember on one of the trips the tippy was in manual mode and I forgot and when I went to drive from a stop it revved very high before I realised and put it back to auto.
That happens after I've driven a while on a freeway as I've found its better to have it in tippy mode, otherwise sometimes it downshifts too low for the 380 motor at anything over 90kmh. By keeping it in tippy I can manually switch between 4th and 5th as needed, which is all it needs at those speeds. For some reason I usually forget to put it back again after exiting the fwy and coming to a stop!
Well I went back to check my photos and I see the oil level was closer to 3/4 full than half so not as bad as I thought, but I am wondering how you would be able to tell if there was any damage done? Would there be anything to look for? Fuel economy? Noises? Seems ok, but I havent driven it more than a couple of k's since then. i can take it out later today or tomorrow for a test drive.
Mum is ok, she had kidney failure and had to have stents replaced. Somehow all the drama completely pushed the oil change out of my mind at the time. I had to drive over to mums a few times that week for things, which is miles away and then the hospital. I think the take away from this is to never start the oil change without everything being on hand first, in case you're interrupted.
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