Well, ill take that one on the chin deservedly so... :-X However luckily for me i stopped and did exactly what the book says in event of an oil light coming on "stop and fill it up" so no harm done and and after all what idiot would put a warning light on any machine if it warned you when it was all too late, of course it isn't hard to check and at least now i know that this particular machine drinks like me on a saturday night, especially this particular saturday