What does this warning light mean?

[DaveDreads]

(Sorry for the photo, I took it from another thread)

It was flashing for a bit then buggered off,
i've done a search but as usual all the results contradicted each other.

 

[MartinR]

emissions light, caused by a number of different problems just have find what.

when mine did it it was a shot spark plug

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

Mine did it when the coil pack died, get it plugged in to snap-on/clip

 

[Adamm.]

It means get it plugged up for the non mechanical minded lol.

Edit, but as mentioned usually something like coilpack, plugs, leads, injectors etc bring up that light.

 

[johnnyd]

Mine did this when breather pipe came off intake. Its a rubber pipe that attaches to the bend on the intake just before the throttle body. Pipe had fallen behind the engine and just needed to be pushed back on. 2 second job if it is this.

The light came on when I was stationary by the way. Turned off pretty much as soon as I started moving again.

 

[DaveDreads]

Had the upper inlet off the other week and there was a HT lead that looked a bit worse for wear.

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

Have you noticed any performance issues/juddering?

 

[DaveDreads]

No real performance issues, went for a blast yesterday and it felt as fast as ever,
it always judders and vibrates, has done for years, uprated engine mounts don't help. lol

 

[LukeW]

I had this on with a misfire, I changed leads, plugs and an injector (after finding out that was the cause) but the light is still on! The car feels OK again now, what could it be!?

Or does it stay on until you get it turned off?

 

[Gally]

It is an engine management light. It means the electronics have thrown up a slight error of somekind and take it to your local Renault garage to have it checked out. Obviously the last part is ignorable.

It can be a million things mate. Just need to check the normal things or wait and see if it happens again. More than likely it's just being French.

 

[Elfy]

Mine was due to faulty pre cat lambda sensor

 

[ben lee]

engine management light take it to most garages and get the fault codes read and reset.

 

[martynzs]

engine management light take it to most garages and get the fault codes read and reset.

Youre a little late with a wrong answer there...

 

[sbridgey]

Youre a little late with a wrong answer there...

Are you on crack?

 

[DaveDreads]

I know mine's a HT lead because when the upper inlet came off the other week,
we found one of them had white powder around the end, then within a day or so the eml started flashing intermittently.

It's at BTM now for a few hundred quids worth of work including new HT leads.

 

[ben lee]

Youre a little late with a wrong answer there...

what did i get wrong?

 

[Don]

Dave, mine was present cat lambda sensor. I've had it cleared and going to try better fuel to see if light comes back on. Might even try cleaning the sensor to see if I can decoke it and see what happens.

 

[Adam G]

Dog hair in the air filter light.

 

[DaveDreads]

When I dropped it of at Freds and he looked inside it he said,
'You weren't joking about it being a dog kennel'. lol

 

[Adam G]

Thought there was a mist over the airport when I drove past. Fred must have just opened your door.

 

[LiamR172]

Youre a little late with a wrong answer there...

Hows that answer wrong?

 

[MikeClio172SPT]

Are you on crack?

LMFAO!!! lol

The proper answer.... it needs to go onto the Diags & have the codes read.......& to see whats causing the fault.

 

[DaveDreads]

Thought there was a mist over the airport when I drove past. Fred must have just opened your door.

No word of a lie, there's actually a gravel trap in the passenger foot well atm,
when I walk the dog down the park, my wellies and his leather football pick up all loads of small stones off the carpark. lol

 

[sam_clio182]

I've had this similar problem have too get it code read see what's faults come up but it's basically changing things till it fixes the problem I've got a compression test first too make sure everything there was ok first then had too change coil pack, leads, spark plugs then found had a faulty injector too car drives fine now so solved the problem but just a case of going though a list of parts unfortunately

 

[M26]

It's the engine management light meaning the ECU has picked up on something that's went wrong/not reading correctly and stored a fault code.

There's no point in just assuming it means anything until you get it plugged in and read whatever fault code it has stored.