Oil Pressure Sensor Error - Safe to Drive?

[SunnyInCo]

Yesterday my check engine light came on and noticed the oil pressure gauge was reading 0. I checked the oil and it's fine. Today I purchased an OBD instrument and confirmed I am receiving one error, P0523/P0521. The reader I purchased off Amazon has 2 sub-codes under the one error.

Is the vehicle safe to drive until I bring it in this weekend?

 

[gooffeyguy]

It should be just a bad sensor. Mine did this last summer.

It never gave me the "low oil pressure, stop engine" warning, just the check engine light with code and a dead gauge.

 

[Fless]

How does the engine sound? Any excessive (abnormal) ticking or rattling?

 

[SunnyInCo]

No, no noise at all. Runs the same for the 2 miles I drove to get back home last night. Starting in the garage a few minutes ago to use the OBD its also sounds fine.

 

[SunnyInCo]

It should be just a bad sensor. Mine did this last summer.

It never gave me the "low oil pressure, stop engine" warning, just the check engine light with code and a dead gauge.

Thanks. Sounds exactly the same as my situation.

 

[gooffeyguy]

Thanks. Sounds exactly the same as my situation.

And when I cleared the codes just to see if the same codes came back, the gauge would peg all the way to like 80psi and stay there.

My code was something like oil pressure sensor voltage out of range