Engine Warning Light Flashing

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Lucaio
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Engine Warning Light Flashing

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Every now and then I like to "stretch my cars legs a bit", and whilst doing so today I have noticed that my engine warning light starts flashing when I go above 4k revs in 5th, as soon as I drop back under 4k revs it will stop flashing after a second. Any idea what this could be?

I couldn't hear any strange noises.
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Re: Engine Warning Light Flashing

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It needs to be scanned to find out what up

It's likely a faulty sensor.
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Ah, thanks mate.

Taking it for a service at a local VW specialist in the next couple of weeks, will see if they can do anything there.
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Re: Engine Warning Light Flashing

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Took my car in for a service over the weekend and had this issue checked.

Turns out one of my spark plugs was misfiring, just in case someone has a similar problem and this pops up in the search results.
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