Oil pressure light

[Md1986]

Hi all,

I’m driving a 2019 Edge St with 110000 km (68000 miles)

I’m having the oil pressure light on when asking for performance (hi-rev). There’s no leak of oil and my oil level are perfect…I was told that it was maybe the oil pressure switch and had it changed. But still the problem remains.

Ford tech talked to me about oil pump strap (cost around 2k to replace). Before I put to much money without knowing what it’s the problem, does anyone had similar issues

 

[Razziel24]

Hi, Ive just got the "low oil pressure" message today when I was at 5K RPM and I had a sudden loss of power.
I parked and checked the dipstick and there was almost no oil, so I had to refill it. (oil was changed 3 months ago)
I checked for oil leaks but there is no sign of visible leakages.
Shes parked at home, and ill check tomorrow if there is any oil in the garage floor.

 

[Antb97]

Hi, Ive just got the "low oil pressure" message today when I was at 5K RPM and I had a sudden loss of power.
I parked and checked the dipstick and there was almost no oil, so I had to refill it. (oil was changed 3 months ago)
I checked for oil leaks but there is no sign of visible leakages.
Shes parked at home, and ill check tomorrow if there is any oil in the garage floor.

Did you ever sort this out, my car has been consuming oil last 1.5 years and I cannot find the culprit. Really believing it’s the turbo burning it but not entirely sure.

 

[Razziel24]

Not really. After that episode I just did an oil change, there was no visible oil leaks, and so far the garage floor shows no signs of oil, so I dont know what happened.
Oil level has been fine for the past 3 months

 

[Razziel24]

Did you ever sort this out, my car has been consuming oil last 1.5 years and I cannot find the culprit. Really believing it’s the turbo burning it but not entirely sure.

---- update ----

On thursday got the Low Oil Pressure warning again when I was arriving home, so I parked the car, let it cool down for a few hours and checked the oil level.... I was at the "low" mark again.
So I filled it with 2 quarts of full synthetic 5w30 and took it to the mechanic (a friend of mine) the next day...
We checked all the hoses, intake, exhaust, recirculating valves, etc. and there was no sign of oil whatsoever.
I think that if there was a leak from the turbos, there should be at least a sign of oil on the tubing somewhere.
We unplugged the proximal coils (bank 2 i believe) and one of them had oil around the outer part of the sparkplug (the inside part that goes inside the cam was normal), the other 3 were clean.
I believe that means I have a valve gasket problem...
Since he had no room for taking my car, we just checked the oil level and I took the car home.
The car is functioning perfect, no hesitation, no power loss, no vibrations, no smoke.
I will take it to the mechanic next week for a full checkup.

Any recomendations will be welcome

 

[Antb97]

For checking the oil, there’s a tsb that says get vehicle to operating temperature and then let sit for only 15minutes to avoid inaccurate readings. I just don’t want you to have over filled it.

I’ve been on a lot of forums and stuff recently, I’m leaning towards a couple things. I see this is a “common” problem about 50 of us or so are facing with the Edge ST so it’s making me believe it’s a bad batch of parts or something.

My car like everyone else’s intermittently consumes/burns oil. No real noticeable things, in terms of performance issues unless the low engine oil pressure light gets triggered then it’s put into a limp mode.

I’ve swapped my PCV valve a $10 part or so, no change car is still consuming.

I’m starting to think for me it’s associated to long idling and remote starting the car. And I only say this is because after remote starting the car pulling away I noticed what looked to be blue smoke from the exhaust out of the rear view mirror, but this could have just been a normal condensation smoke and the vehicle behind me with LED lights would make it seem blue. However next day I was low by 2 full quarts.

My guess are the following:
1. Valve seal stems
2. Bad Turbo

TSBs for older gen 2.7 engines specifically the f150s have similar symptoms and the fix was a turbo line replace.

Other TSBs are more scary that call for a new engine long block.

I think next steps for me will be to do a compression test and leak down test. This will confirm if there is engine related issues. If that comes back normal last 2 things would be valve stem seals or turbos, not sure how to test turbos. (Watching psi boost gauge seemed fine).

Valve stem seals do look to be labor intensive to replace.

I’ve been at this since 56k miles since 2023. 2 years later I’m now at 86k miles and the low engine oil light has came on maybe 3 total times. But I’ve been monitoring oil consumption.

Are you remote starting your car at all or letting it idle for a long amount of time as well? Wondering if we’re all doing similar things that’s causing it.

 

[Razziel24]

yes. I do the remote start when its hot outside, and also when I go to pick up my kid from school, I usually stay in the car for around 15 minutes until he jumps in and we leave.
I have never noticed any smoke on those ocassions but I will be paying more atention to it from now on...
thanks for your input

 

[Antb97]

yes. I do the remote start when its hot outside, and also when I go to pick up my kid from school, I usually stay in the car for around 15 minutes until he jumps in and we leave.
I have never noticed any smoke on those occasions but I will be paying more attention to it from now on...
thanks for your input

Took my car in today, here's what they did.

1. Checked PCV and its valve, no oil in the intake tubes
2. Pulled turbo tube like from Charge air cooler, no oil poured out (rules out turbo chargers) -Allegedly
3. Looked at long block, no visible external leaks.
4. Performed a PCM update as that can cause oil consumption issues.

End result - no issues found from basic inspection.

Advising the recommendation to remove intake manifold and tun engine over by hand to see if valves are bad as well as a compression test to ensure rings are sealing properly.

My fear lingers even more given they want to now check internal engine components. Something in me says internal valve stem issues given that I believe the car is only consuming when long period idling.

It sounds like Ford is quiet strict and stands behind 1qt burning every 1k miles is normal operation. To me that makes no sense. If you get full synthetic, and burn off 1 qt every 1k miles you'll not even make it to the 7k mile mark full synthetics should last you for you'd run dry.