Hi guys,

I have some problems with my stilo abarth selespeed from 2002.

The car was just driving fine today untill i had to pick up something from home. I parked the car on the side walk and turned off the engine. Came back and started the car - it ran - untill I put the gear in 1. It did not feel right. It was struggeling with something and after that I saw the oil pressurre gauge go blank and immediately after that, the engine stalled with the oil pressure low warning. I tried to start the car again, it runs just for a second and then stalls again.

the only thing i did was the oil change 2 weeks ago. New oil (castrol 10W60 TWS motorsport) and oil filter was changed.

I think the oil change did something but i'm not sure what. could the oil pump be broken? Or do i have problems with the selespeed?

I hope you guys can help me out. :worship:

greetz,

Bulent.

Update: this morning the car started and I could drive the car off the side walk into the parking lot. oil pressure was normal (full) again. The selespeed is working fine... all the gears are there.

Th equestion is: why did the oil pressure drop to zero and the engine stalled after this? I'm sure about the sequence because i've read multiple entries in the forum about the engine stalling and then causing the oil warning message. This was not the case in my situation. Is it possible that the engine has a safety mechanism that stalls the engine when oil pressure has dropped to zero?

Furthermore: If the oil level was low I should have gotten a warning dont I? Especially with so much electronics installed in this car its the minimum they could have implemented.

I dont understand anything from this car. Typical italian design => not logical.

:bang:

Check the pipes just after the air filter. It happened to me two days ago and my pipe cam away from the throttle body

You don't get any warning on low oil level I was driving that car with 2L of oil from 4,7L total and it never complained except in hard left turn which threw oil pressure light. I just got that car and didn't know they drink oil like petrol. It doesn't have any safety mechanism to stall the car while driving since it's potentialy dangerus. But Selespeed has a "limp mode" which gives you 1st and 2nd gear so you can slowly drive to the garage on some malfunctions. But it won't stall the car and it won't start braking or threw you in 2nd gear when going in limp mode. It will be active and when you reach 2nd gear that's it.

Simptoms I had when my piston bearing spun were same with difference it was doing klunk klunk klunk. Which is not in your case.

Engine electronics are pretty standard. It has a sensor or two more on gearbox since it's The Selespeed. Which I find great since I can see how many kilometers I did in every gear including neutral. Btw I did 6 km with neutral (towing) and how many times it was shifted into each gear and many other parameters on gearbox ECU.

Neccesary equipment with this car:
- ELM 3.7 cable USB
- FiatECUscan
- laptop
- tow rope

Thanks for the replies.

When the car is running, it's actually a fine car. But this kind of problems are making me tired of it. It seems that the problems dont want to end with this car.

How ever, I did not drive the cars since this oil pressure incident, but i did take off the throttler body. Wat striked me was that the inlet manifol is very wet from inside. Wet with oil. What could be the reason of this? Is it normal? Is the oil perhaps blown into the cilinders from the inlet manifold perhaps burning the oil and decreasing the oil level without knowing this since there is no warning? The car did once smoke for a short while (5 minutes) when i did an addup of a half a litre oil.

I'm thinking: when the piston rings or the valve seals are worn, then the car should produce blue smoke continiously. This doesnt happen. It only smokes (as it seems) when you put fresh oil from the oil filling opening.

Very strange....

grtz,

Bulent