Check Engine Light??
Brett Dikeman
brett at cloud9.net
Mon Mar 8 21:10:58 EST 2004
At 7:52 PM -0500 3/8/04, FlyGuyKy3 at aol.com wrote:
>I just bought my A6 last week, and the engine light comes on periodically.
>It comes on after about 15 minutes of driving... if that. When it does come
>on, I can just pull over to the side of the road, turn the car off, and then
>turn the car back on.. to turn the check engine light off. I am
>just wondering
>if this is a flaw in the design, if the car actually does need to be checked..
>or what should i do.... Should I just pull the codes and reset it?
Gas cap tight? If not, newer cars treat that as an error code since
it is emissions-related. It's one of those ease vs. likelyhood- not
very likely, but easy to check, so why not.
Yes, pull the codes and find out what the deal is- don't clear them,
they're obviously coming back and it'll possibly be helpful to your
mechanic. Newer cars log a ton of info about fault conditions, some
of it can be useful.
>The car runs like a dream. No strange noises, no suspension defects, nothing
>major. The mechanic told me the compression was at 185. No major leaks.
>The only problem with the entire car is the crack in the windshield washer
>tank-- so now the digital screen is always tellin me to fill the
>tank. I'm going
>to replace it with my new paycheck.
Shucks, I'd just slap some epoxy on...if you prep the surface
properly(clean it with degreaser, score/rough it a little, let it dry
thoroughly) and the epoxy is suitable for plastic, it'll probably
outlive the car.
Brett
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