02-14-2023, 03:39 PM
Yeah, I am wondering too hehe. I wanted to have more "intelligence" on the read out, but there isn't any! But I figured maybe we can learn something if we all at least can see what the oil level is, so it's there in OrBit ;-)
Some people I know have tried a little testing with this...by noting the oil level, and what happens when you add a little oil at a time. The result seems to be that we know the oil level going down would be a problem, a code might be set or you will get an "oil level low" message. But also it was found that *adding* oil will also cause some "message", I don't know what it is, just heard it second hand.
So far it seems what is "good" oil level may be something that is set when the oil is changed, I know there is a procedure at least the dealer techs follow for this. Somewhere in that process, the "good level" is set, then going forward, the car is monitoring the oil level for any changes, whether that is "lower" or "higher". I guess in that way it can monitor not only for oil loss, but also for things that might make the level rise, perhaps a blown head gasket letting coolant into the crankcase, or massive blow-by of a bad piston ring sending unburnt fuel into the crank case.
For now the readout in OrBit is just informational. The coming update version of OrBit has data reading added for thousands of data fields from the ECUs, which perhaps may enable us to find what data is stored in the connected car, that we could read, that may indicate what it's current "good" or "bad" oil levels should be...
Some people I know have tried a little testing with this...by noting the oil level, and what happens when you add a little oil at a time. The result seems to be that we know the oil level going down would be a problem, a code might be set or you will get an "oil level low" message. But also it was found that *adding* oil will also cause some "message", I don't know what it is, just heard it second hand.
So far it seems what is "good" oil level may be something that is set when the oil is changed, I know there is a procedure at least the dealer techs follow for this. Somewhere in that process, the "good level" is set, then going forward, the car is monitoring the oil level for any changes, whether that is "lower" or "higher". I guess in that way it can monitor not only for oil loss, but also for things that might make the level rise, perhaps a blown head gasket letting coolant into the crankcase, or massive blow-by of a bad piston ring sending unburnt fuel into the crank case.
For now the readout in OrBit is just informational. The coming update version of OrBit has data reading added for thousands of data fields from the ECUs, which perhaps may enable us to find what data is stored in the connected car, that we could read, that may indicate what it's current "good" or "bad" oil levels should be...