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Exhaust emission light - what to do?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:56 pm
by CymruPolo
When I was driving home from work tonight I came from a 50mph zone onto a dual carriage way and as I was accelerating I felt a judder. Initially I thought I went over a bump but the car felt like it lost a bit of power and the exhaust emission light came on. Then a few seconds later it went off and the car felt normal again.
Any idea what could be wrong? Do I need a new exhaust? a mate of mine did mention he thought it was blowing a bit a month or so ago.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:18 pm
by oscar olop gti
Try & get your car over a pit or on a ramp & see if you can find where its
blowing from. Might be the cat if the emission light came on.
Think mines blowing from that area at the minute, need to check.
Hope you get it sorted.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:08 pm
by CymruPolo
Does it make any difference to the car at all? Apart that it would fail an MOT lol.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:14 pm
by Mouse_GTI
Mine juddered a bit when misfire after I got water in the spark plugs, light came on too
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:24 pm
by CymruPolo
Mouse_GTI wrote:Mine juddered a bit when misfire after I got water in the spark plugs, light came on too
Did you have to do anything to sort it out?
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:10 am
by Mouse_GTI
Had to leave them to dry out and get out the moisture using kitchen tissue. Car was fine after that
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:59 pm
by CymruPolo
It was fine today, so who knows
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:43 am
by Tim_GTi
CymruPolo wrote:It was fine today, so who knows
I hate that, your glad that it gone but unsure about whether to cehck it out or not because it maybe be nothing or a problem developing!
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:43 pm
by Dee-vub
yeh something weird happened to mines a couple days ago.
Drove home, turned the car off....went back out like an hour later and noticed the fan was on....i was like hmmmmm! So tried to start the car, but no surprise that the fan had drained the battery! Nightmare!
So i took out the fuse and put the battery on charge....once charged, fired her into action, stuck the fuse back in and the fan was fine.
weeeeeird!
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:22 pm
by CymruPolo
It's fine today aswell. Might have been a one off, I hope so anyway.
Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:43 am
by alexperkins
The sensors do panic sometimes - if it comes back, keep an eye on it
