Check Engine Light

[jippa]

my engine light came up yesterday but everything seems fine anyone else had a problem diagnosed from their light coming on. have a feeling it might be coilpacks from info from a workshop but i cant feel any breakdown as i had this problem wit my s1 and never saw a check engine light

[Red Sky II]

Hey Jerome

My SII engine used to come on a lot when I first got the car but it was also accompanied with the "safe mode" as where a lower gear was selected and restricted revs. Used to stop, turn engine off, wait, start again and was fine (until it happened again)

Ultimately turned out to be a faulty cable causing a short in the coilpacks - was all fixed and never repeated.

The ECU will have the fault code if you can extract it

Cheers, Al

[dmonic1]

yeah my S2 did this last week. everything was running fine and all fluids were at correct levels. took it to the importer and they hooked it up to a diagnostic machine and it turned out to be the o2 sensor giving a faulty signal. he cleared the code and it hasnt come back since. gotta love it when its something simple.

[jippa]

coolio. waiting to get it checked as every mechanic i know is on holidays till monday... just like me. thanks for the info. hope mines minor to

[MrGTST]

Mine had the check engine light come on intermittantly for a few weeks... got it checked with the consult software and it was from memory a "ignition problem"... in short it turned out to be a faulty coilpack so I threw in a set of splitfires and its been great ever since

[alu-siv_stagea]

my one gets the same from time to time, but goes away after turning off and then on again, thank you for the info will get the coilpacks checked out.

[chook]

..a few times, simple case of extracting the error codes, by using the pin jumper method behind the coin box. Then looking up which codes you got.

[IMPORTD]

mine did this, turned out to be low on brake fluid ( i think..mitchy?)

[mitchy_]

mine did this, turned out to be low on brake fluid ( i think..mitchy?)

nah, it was the handbrake light (exclamation mark in the triangle) that can signify low brake fluid....

so dont go hammer and tong at the handbrake wiring thinking there is a short or something like i did!