engine warning light help please
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engine warning light help please
Hi All
Today driving to work on motorway about 65mph,noticed engine warning light had come on,car drives the same as normal.
What is the likely cause of this,and can you reset anything to clear the light so i can see if it comes on again?
If you can what is the procedure please?
Help me if you can (xsara 1.4lx y reg).
Today driving to work on motorway about 65mph,noticed engine warning light had come on,car drives the same as normal.
What is the likely cause of this,and can you reset anything to clear the light so i can see if it comes on again?
If you can what is the procedure please?
Help me if you can (xsara 1.4lx y reg).
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See my reply above!
Was the light that came on the engine management light (yellow), sometimes refered to as the 'K' light or the red "STOP" light?
If it was the former, you need to get the diagnostic system checked.
If it was the latter, you need to heed the instruction "STOP" and either get the problem resolved or get somebody competent to fix it, as driving the car in this condition may be dangerous, to occupants or the systems in the car.
If your resolution is just to extinquish the lamp and not heed the warnings, remove whatever parts of the dash are needed to gain access and take out the offending lamp. Then you can drive on in complete ignorance.
H
Was the light that came on the engine management light (yellow), sometimes refered to as the 'K' light or the red "STOP" light?
If it was the former, you need to get the diagnostic system checked.
If it was the latter, you need to heed the instruction "STOP" and either get the problem resolved or get somebody competent to fix it, as driving the car in this condition may be dangerous, to occupants or the systems in the car.
If your resolution is just to extinquish the lamp and not heed the warnings, remove whatever parts of the dash are needed to gain access and take out the offending lamp. Then you can drive on in complete ignorance.
H
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Well, that's three of us now have told you the same thing.
My understanding is that Citroen put these warning lights on the dash to tell a driver that something with the car or its dynamics is faulty. They make the assumption, quite rightly in some cases, that the driver is ignorant of the systems used in the car and how to find and rectify faults.
Desertfox, you have yet to tell us whether the lamp that has illuminated is either the yellow engine management light or the more serious RED "STOP" lamp. In either case, continued driving without rectify a fault usually adds more damage to the systems, thereby increasing the eventual repair costs.
The only way you will extinguish the lamp is by plugging the car into a diagnostic unit, rectifying the fault and then resetting the sensor that illuminated the warning lamp. Quite simple really.
Or find the offending lamp and remove it.
H
My understanding is that Citroen put these warning lights on the dash to tell a driver that something with the car or its dynamics is faulty. They make the assumption, quite rightly in some cases, that the driver is ignorant of the systems used in the car and how to find and rectify faults.
Desertfox, you have yet to tell us whether the lamp that has illuminated is either the yellow engine management light or the more serious RED "STOP" lamp. In either case, continued driving without rectify a fault usually adds more damage to the systems, thereby increasing the eventual repair costs.
The only way you will extinguish the lamp is by plugging the car into a diagnostic unit, rectifying the fault and then resetting the sensor that illuminated the warning lamp. Quite simple really.
Or find the offending lamp and remove it.
H
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Sadly, on a Y plate 1.4 a standard OBDII fault code reader is unlikely to work. It may as all petrol engines had to be OBDII compliant by 2001 but I'd not bank on a Y plate Citroen or Pug to be compliant.daveyhairbear wrote:You can buy simple OBD-2 diagnostic devices from Ebay and, I believe, Halfords.
Although the diagnostic connector looks the same as a standard OBDII one, the protocols that come out of it are in no way the same and an OBDII reader will not make any sense of them.
A Lexia is the only way to go to accurately tell you what is bringing on the light.
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Desertfox, you can try and leave the battery disconnected for about half an hour. If it is an intermitent fault, it may switch the light off, otherwise your only route is Lexia. Only do this if you know your radio code, otherwise it may be a visit to a main dealer to get the code and they sometimes charge for this.
Handyman, :wiggle:
Handyman, :wiggle: