Dynamic oil level wire connect to ground?

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Sjoerd320i
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Post Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:10 pm

My car has check control but the e36 engine loom I use doesn't have the connector for the sump sensor.

I know the wire on the car's loom for the dynamic oil level is Green/Yellow but do I have to connect is to ground to make the light on the check panel to go off?
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Post Mon Jul 09, 2012 8:13 pm

Off the top of my head im sure its 3 wires in total 1 of them is ground and the others should be on the c101 plug. Im sure someone here can clarify this.
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Post Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:05 pm

I have this issue, when I had the m50 in my car the m50 loom had this 3 pin plug to connect to the sump sensor thus turning off the "engine oil light" on obc..... When fitting the m52 I noticed there is no plug for this facility :?
So I've just lived with the light being on, I know how to check my oil without this light prompting me lol, but I wouldn't mind being able to turn it off.....
A 2 door e30 with 8 cylinders, what could be better winkeye :D
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Post Mon Jul 16, 2012 2:01 pm

I can't remember exactly which wires it was but on mine I had to put one of the wires to ground and one to ground via a 1000 Ohm resistor to get the light to go out.

I'm sure it was 1000 Ohms cause I still have a couple in the little bag of them I bought at the time!
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