I was out for a drive earlier when these dreaded 2 lights came on:
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Most of the people reading this thread will know that they are the electronic fault light and the engine management light, after these came on the car went into 'limp home mode'. I've had this before and my local mechanic got to the bottom of it by changing: The coilpack, The throttle pedal and the spark plugs if I remember correctly (not all at the same time) and it has been serviced roughly 1000 miles ago at the time of MOT test.
It has a slight misfire that just came back when these lights came on and when the throttle pedal is pressed it sounds like there is a slight rattle coming from somewhere which I thought might be the heat shield touching the exhaust but it does'nt seem to be that as the heat shield is solid.
The electronic fault light came on roughly 2 seconds before the engine management light came (probably not important but I want to give as much detail as possible)
I'm thinking it's some sort of sensor thats gone but I'm no mechanic, could someone please give me some ideas of what could be wrong with it as I'm sick of paying mechanics to look at the little french tin, sorry for all the reading but I wanted to describe the fault as good as possible.
Thanks for any suggestions/advice given
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Most of the people reading this thread will know that they are the electronic fault light and the engine management light, after these came on the car went into 'limp home mode'. I've had this before and my local mechanic got to the bottom of it by changing: The coilpack, The throttle pedal and the spark plugs if I remember correctly (not all at the same time) and it has been serviced roughly 1000 miles ago at the time of MOT test.
It has a slight misfire that just came back when these lights came on and when the throttle pedal is pressed it sounds like there is a slight rattle coming from somewhere which I thought might be the heat shield touching the exhaust but it does'nt seem to be that as the heat shield is solid.
The electronic fault light came on roughly 2 seconds before the engine management light came (probably not important but I want to give as much detail as possible)
I'm thinking it's some sort of sensor thats gone but I'm no mechanic, could someone please give me some ideas of what could be wrong with it as I'm sick of paying mechanics to look at the little french tin, sorry for all the reading but I wanted to describe the fault as good as possible.
Thanks for any suggestions/advice given