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Blinking Oil Light On Cub Cadet

The light kept blinking. Oil level was full and very clean; in fact, the unit had just been thru its very thorough annual servicing just two months earlier. And so it went to the shop where they changed oil and installed a new filter. A note on the invoice said, "Oil light will stop blinking in 3 hrs."

Sure enough, it did stop blinking although much earlier than 3 hrs. What was the cause for the blinking oil light? I was expecting them to say that there was some problem with the oil being pumped into the moving parts, but there's no mention of oil pump failure or anything like that.

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All Thumbs
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It's the "change oil" indicator on an engine timer set for 50 hr intervals iirc. There's no reset other than it times out after roughly

3-5 hrs (why so imprecise and why no reset you'll have to ask someone else; I don't know :) ).
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dpb

Why is there no reset? Because it's a frickin' lawn mower, not the Space Shuttle.

Reply to
dennisgauge

OK, thanks.

Well, I just got shafted. The oil was supposedly changed in April, looked clean, and there is no way I put 50 hrs. on it since then. In fact the total hrs. just broke 50 and the unit is 4 yrs. old.

My other Cub doesn't have this time feature; in fact none of them had it.

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All Thumbs

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:07:24 -0400, All Thumbs wrote Re Re: Blinking Oil Light On Cub Cadet:

It certainly looks that way.

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Caesar Romano

Sounds like the oil change light goes off when the engine has 50 hrs. on it. If the new oil looks clean, why do you think you've been shafted? The evidence, the clean engine oil, suggests that you did get the oil change that this service light requested. Probably the service light goes of every

50 hrs.

Dave M.

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Dave M.

IF it is a timer, and IF it is set for 50 hours, the reason it came on after 25 hours, more or less on the oil change is because it didn't go off, or get reset, at the first 25 hour change.

Reply to
clare

for a quart or two of oil and a $4 filter, you really can't do it too often.

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Steve Barker

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I think he thinks that because the oil had been changed recently before he took it in and he took it in because he thought the light indicated a problem other than simply a timer oil-change light. A probably deemed suitable repair action would have to been to "Notify customer meaning of a blinking oil light and ask if want to change oil".

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dpb

On 6/14/2012 7:10 PM, snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca wrote: ...

It is both of the above by manual and there isn't any reset other than the time-out function. So, it wouldn't go off at 25 and he couldn't have reset it when he did the change even if had known about it...

It's one of those features that tries to be too clever by far...

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dpb

Exactly.

And to complicate matters, the owner's manual says that the oil should be changed at 100 hrs. Meanwhile, in 4 yrs., they change it every time the unit goes to the shop, which comes to 5 times, 50 hrs.

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All Thumbs

It sounds to be about the most stupid feature I've ever heard of on a product. Disable the light and change the oil yourself at something reasonably close to the manufacturer's recommended intervals.

cheers

Jules

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Jules Richardson

They are changing the oil because it's part of the annual service schedule, and you keep bringing it back for the "annual servicing."

Who's fault is it that you are blindly paying for this annual servicing?

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dennisgauge

and you keep bringing it back for the "annual servicing."

No complaint there; I would just like answers as to why the light keeps blinking. Getting a response from the dealer is like trying to get an audience with the Pope.

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All Thumbs

and you keep bringing it back for the "annual servicing."

Exactly what model Cub Cadet is this? Whch engine???

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clare

and you keep bringing it back for the "annual servicing."

The Service Monitor meter contains a service minder function that utilizes the 4-digit LCD display. The letters "CHG" will display followed by the letters "OIL" and then followed by the meter accumulated time. "CHG"/"OIL"/TIME will alternate on the display for five(5) minutes after the meter reaches 50 hours. The display will also flash as described above for five(5) minutes every time the tractor has been started during the maintenance time interval. The interval will occur every 50 hours and will be in effect for two(2) hours ( Example: this feature will display from 50-52 hrs., 100-102 hrs., 150-152 hrs etc...). While the LCD is displaying the "CHG"/"OIL"/TIME letters, the red LED "oil symbol" will also be flashing for the entire five(5) minutes. The meter display will return to normal function automatically after the reminder maintenance time interval of two(2) hours.There is no method of manually re-setting this Service Monitor gauge

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clare

and you keep bringing it back for the "annual servicing."

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Thanks!! That's exactly what's happening. The model is 2550 and the damn owner's manual doesn't mention a word about it

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All Thumbs

edule, and you keep bringing it back for the "annual servicing."

Another example of people that do up the manuals probably don't actually use the product, and in many cases probobly have never even seen the product they are writing about. And then do the original in Chinese or Indian or Vietnamese, then translate to English and see what you get.

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hrhofmann

In our owner's manual, the diagram of the lights, etc. looks nothing like w hat's actually on the mower. And in the owner's manual, it says the hour m eter will say CHG OIL at the 50 hour intervals . . . but instead, the oil l ight flashes and there is no mention of what that would mean.

The mower is one for a small club and my husband is the one who cares for i t this year. He just called me to figure out what the &*#(* the flashing l ight meant . . . like the OP, he expected it to be an oil pump or something , as he'd changed the oil at 40 hours.

Thanks to all of you, I was able to tell him what it meant. And that meant no expensive "repair" for something that wasn't even broken. YIKES!

Dear Cub Cadet -- if you're going to have idiot lights, make them so that i diots actually understand what they mean!

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theboatgalley

The mower is one for a small club and my husband is the one who cares for it this year. He just called me to figure out what the &*#(* the flashing light meant . . . like the OP, he expected it to be an oil pump or something, as he'd changed the oil at 40 hours.

Thanks to all of you, I was able to tell him what it meant. And that meant no expensive "repair" for something that wasn't even broken. YIKES!

Dear Cub Cadet -- if you're going to have idiot lights, make them so that idiots actually understand what they mean!

They just don't make them like when IH made them anymore

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Roanin

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