engine light flashing

[olliemilsom]

what does the engine light flashing mean?

 

[mr.pink87]

Your car is going to explode!

 

[olliemilsom]

great

 

[Damo_Sport]

I had this yesterday... it was after giving it some beans.. flashed for about 5 mins then turned of

 

[Goodj]

check you oil and stuff.

 

[Soot1e]

The red engine light orthe amber one on the right hand side of the dash?

 

[olliemilsom]

the Amber one

 

[dciRon]

My dCi does that if driven "enthusiastically", I think it is low rail pressure, poss. injector probs...

 

[Soot1e]

The amber light is to warn of emmisions failures/faults and is not fatal to the engine. Mine comes on occasionally when de-celerating at speed, and I think it is because of overfuelling. You may find come MOT time that it will fail the emmisions test. Don't worry about it till then if everything else soumds good.

 

[Greeny.]

Get it plugged into a diag machine if your that worried about it

 

[olliemilsom]

cheers guys, im going to get a code reader and check, so even if the amber light is constant or flashing it always means emissions failures?

 

[3mmy]

Yup, mine was flashing intermittently recently and has actually been the worst fault on my car, however i do know of people whose lights flashed up for a while then not happened again. you may find its something wrong somewhere and sticking it on the diagnostics clears it.

it may be a new coil parck who knows

 

[olliemilsom]

oh really, what has happened to your car pal?

 

[3mmy]

you dont wanna know.

this is just one of the endless faults ive incurred but i did change the coils and then found out it was the head gasket so replaced that, now the car works im getting a new one it may not be the same as mine so i wouldnt worry that you need a new car