Recently I was driving my 2011 PTT with about 62k miles and noticed the oil pressure gauge going much higher than usual (close to 5) at maybe 5psi boost and not WOT. Then yellow oil pressure fault light came on and the gauge went to zero and stayed there, oil levels remain fine and still boosting normal. The light would then go away and gauge would work again, but still abnormally high (has been very hot this past week or 2 in the northeast, not sure if that's a factor)

Looking to order a new oil pressure sender today if anyone has experienced same issue..... thanks guys

 

Sure hope it's just the sender/pressure sensor - that would make for an easy fix. I'm dreading the day the assortment of sensors fail in my car.

 

Did you or are you able to pull any codes? I can look them up.

N/A here with just under 47k mi nothing like that. Last oil change was recent?

 

Haven't had chance to scan but I am about 4-5k into oil change. Just ordered sender, having installed tomorrow, let's see how it goes

 

Sounds like a sender. If you had went to 0 oil pressure under load (even 5psi) something would probably have started knocking. Let us know what it is though!

 

Looks like all is well after doing oil change and replacing oil pressure sender. Gauge is back to normal and car actually feels better. Thanks everyone

 

Did you ever figured out the culprit for the error code by chance? I'm having the exact same issue.

 

Mine did the same. Changed sensor and fixed issue.

 

Really? I changed mine and still does the same thing, oil pressure goes to zero once I hit over 72mph and returns to normal once I drop speed or RPM's drop to under 3k. Around town it never shows its ugly head but on freeway it does. What exactly did yours do?

 

Mine originally came on on the interstate and I went into full panic mode and then didn't happen again until I was in sport plus when pushing in the mountains a little bit. It only happened the one time on interstate, all the other times were in sport plus. The shop that did the repair said that it is common for the two wires coming out of sensor to short out together...?

Didn't have issue again after changing.