Site Subscriber’s LeedsMatt Posted January 19 Site Subscriber’s Report Share Posted January 19 Hi guys. The check engine light came on as I was driving home yesterday. How worried should I be? Should I book it in a garage to have a look at? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PTR200S Posted January 19 Moderators Report Share Posted January 19 2 hours ago, LeedsMatt said: Hi guys. The check engine light came on as I was driving home yesterday. How worried should I be? Should I book it in a garage to have a look at? You could try discon the battery, leave a few minutes, touch the positive and negative cables together briefly then reconnect the battery. It may clear the fault if its just a glitch in the system. If not then you need to get the codes off the system for the fault, either with plug in test unit or the blinking light method..need the info for that plus the codes to identify against the number of flashes . 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PTR200S Posted January 19 Moderators Report Share Posted January 19 Have a look here, Stu info at the head of this may help. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founding Member PaulS Posted January 19 Founding Member Report Share Posted January 19 Whilst awaiting diagnostics it is worth checking water and oil levels too... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators hughezee Posted January 19 Administrators Report Share Posted January 19 Sorry to hear the money light has come on 😑 very likely exhaust & emission-related from my experience. e.g Lambda, EGR 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Subscriber’s LeedsMatt Posted January 20 Author Site Subscriber’s Report Share Posted January 20 How big a fix would that be if that's the issue? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators hughezee Posted January 20 Administrators Report Share Posted January 20 40 minutes ago, LeedsMatt said: How big a fix would that be if that's the issue? The worst case is a couple of hours if the EGR is at fault and the intake passage is blocked too... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Laird_Scooby Posted January 27 Moderators Report Share Posted January 27 Something else worth checking is the battery condition, especially since we've just exited the New Ice Age. If a battery is low and taking an abnormally large amount of charge, while it won't put the charge warning light on there might not be enough spare to cover the EFi system and also voltage variations can cause glitches in the system. Try Petes method above, if that seems to work for a while, repeat it but leave the batery cables disconnected and do an overnight trickle charge, preferably from a dumb charger. Then touch the battery cables together (before reconnecting to the battery) for about 30 seconds and see how things go from there. If it still throws up the EML, read the codes and go from there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Subscriber’s LeedsMatt Posted January 27 Author Site Subscriber’s Report Share Posted January 27 Bit of an update, I went and checked all the fluids etc and all were fine. But now the light has not come back on again. I've done about 30 miles and not had it come back on. Do you think the sub zero temps could have caused it to come on? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Laird_Scooby Posted January 27 Moderators Report Share Posted January 27 59 minutes ago, LeedsMatt said: Do you think the sub zero temps could have caused it to come on? Quite likely if the battery is a bit on the old or fragile side ^^^^^ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Subscriber’s LeedsMatt Posted January 27 Author Site Subscriber’s Report Share Posted January 27 Perhaps it's new battery time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Laird_Scooby Posted January 27 Moderators Report Share Posted January 27 That sounds a good plan! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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