Subaru imp & leggy
I did a track day at Brands Hatch Indy yesterday in my 2003 172 - great fun and the car performed really well. Driving home its about 75 mins of almost all motorway along M25, I was maybe 30 mins into the journey when I noticed a warning light on - its the bottom right hand engine shaped light and the light was orange.
I dropped to 55mph and covered the next 15 miles to the services, stopped and had a good look around engine bay - no oil or other visible issues anywhere, temperature was normal, I let the car cool down for 20 mins and then restarted and light remained on - I drove the remaining 23 miles at a steady 55 - 60mph and got home without incident.
Also noticed a really strange noise which didn't seem related to particular revs or road surface and im sure wasn't bits of tyre tread pinging off - best way to describe it was it sounded like the noise when you shake a rattle can of spray paint and the mixer device rattles.
Does anyone have any ideas? - is this the emissions light rather than an engine warning light and any ideas on where to start with this?
The car has a cat fitted and I did wonder whether this may have died on track - heard a couple of pops at one point on the straight on track which sounded like when I hit the loud pedal on my impreza and then back off and the exhaust pops - 2 pops back to back but nothing else before or after and didn't notice the strange noise on track - only on the way home.
I have also recently stripped out the rear interior so a few new noises and rattles there but this noise was really odd.
I dropped to 55mph and covered the next 15 miles to the services, stopped and had a good look around engine bay - no oil or other visible issues anywhere, temperature was normal, I let the car cool down for 20 mins and then restarted and light remained on - I drove the remaining 23 miles at a steady 55 - 60mph and got home without incident.
Also noticed a really strange noise which didn't seem related to particular revs or road surface and im sure wasn't bits of tyre tread pinging off - best way to describe it was it sounded like the noise when you shake a rattle can of spray paint and the mixer device rattles.
Does anyone have any ideas? - is this the emissions light rather than an engine warning light and any ideas on where to start with this?
The car has a cat fitted and I did wonder whether this may have died on track - heard a couple of pops at one point on the straight on track which sounded like when I hit the loud pedal on my impreza and then back off and the exhaust pops - 2 pops back to back but nothing else before or after and didn't notice the strange noise on track - only on the way home.
I have also recently stripped out the rear interior so a few new noises and rattles there but this noise was really odd.
