that little orange light which makes your world crash

  1. Frequent Poster Joined: May 2008 Bradford Posts: 523 5 Door! Saxo 1.1
    #1
    my engine management light has just come on all of a sudden only had the car a couple days weird since the car has full mot which was done a week ago, took it to diagnostics cost £15 at a local garage guy resetted it the light went for a couple days now its back

    bought car in manchester and i live nowhere near there so cant just go back, it did come with an AA warranty (not got docs yet)

    what could the other reasons for it be? hardly drove the car maybe at most done abot 30miles

    worried its something serious the car feels normal nothing wrong at all ! pissed off about this got me depressed lol

    thanks for any advice
  2. Established Member Joined: Sep 2007 Bolton Posts: 1300 Mauritius blue VTR
    #2
    if its driving fine then thats an encouraging sign

    get it checked out properly, could be a minor fault. I'd have thought if it was that bad you'd notice in the way the car was running.
  3. Saxperience Addict Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 11423
    #3
    Could be anything mate, mine comes on and goes off all the time. I just ignore it, is the car de-cat'd? Could be a sensor or something. If it's driving fine, and you know/think everything is alright, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

    Does it stay on or does it go off if you rev the engine at all?
  4. Saxperience Addict Joined: May 2006 Posts: 12553
    #4
    Get a diagnostic done. About £60 from Citroen.
  5. Saxperience Addict Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 11423
    #5
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by David View Post
    Get a diagnostic done. About £60 from Citroen.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by imydaking View Post
    ...took it to diagnostics cost £15 at a local garage guy resetted it the light went for a couple days now its back
    ...
  6. Saxperience Addict Joined: May 2006 Posts: 12553
    #6
    My bad. Sorry.
  7. Frequent Poster Joined: May 2008 Bradford Posts: 523 5 Door! Saxo 1.1
    #7
    car is stock a saxo desire (2000) yep it drives fine revved the engine when the car is staionary and its all fine.

    will leave it for now and if the lights still on by sunday will take it back to the garage as the guy said if ic ame back sunday he would re-run the diagnostics for free and write down what its saying is the problem

    just noticed that the car makes a sorta low rumble like a very faint one from them exausts charvas put on there corsas.

    hmm is this normal ?

    also can someone tell me if this reader will work with saxo ?
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...:X:RTQ:GB:1123
  8. Super Moderator Joined: Sep 2006 Wakefield Posts: 14427 Golf GT
    #8
    yes they do mate bu they are not 10% acurate all the time.

    if you got the car diagnoised and they plugged it into the machine to reset the light then they should have told you what caused it to come on
  9. Frequent Poster Joined: May 2008 Bradford Posts: 523 5 Door! Saxo 1.1
    #9
    yeah al go back tomorow and ask the guy he said he would do it for free and write down what was wrong
  10. Frequent Poster Joined: Apr 2007 Porthleven/Cornwall Posts: 601 corsa 1.2 Saxo VTR
    #10
    if its a standard exhaust, and making alot of noise it might be a hole in the exhaust causing a loss of back pressure, resulting in the engine managment light coming on.

    happens to my car all the time
  11. Frequent Poster Joined: May 2008 Bradford Posts: 523 5 Door! Saxo 1.1
    #11
    well not a lot of noise just a low rumble hmm maybe its normal really annoyed now since my insurance company put me as a girl and when i changed it so they put me as male the price rocketed so there refunding me now i have a possibly messsed car and no insurance after midnight tonight

    ahh am soo annoyed!