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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

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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

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.

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 :)

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! :P

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