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My EFI warning has come on! It's not been raining and I've not washed the car and it won't go off.
The car is due to go in for it's 30k service on Saturday and the dealer is 70 miles away. They have said that 99 times out of a 100 it turns out to be something of nothing but that driving it with the warning "could" damage the catalytic converter. The suspicion is that the lambda sensors need changing.
If it's still doing it would you drive it up to the dealer? Am I likely to do more harm driving it the 70 miles? I could do without the cost of a trailer just for it to turn out to be nothing, or worse still arrange for a trailer and then have everything working fine when the trailer arrives.
Thanks
Eve
The car is due to go in for it's 30k service on Saturday and the dealer is 70 miles away. They have said that 99 times out of a 100 it turns out to be something of nothing but that driving it with the warning "could" damage the catalytic converter. The suspicion is that the lambda sensors need changing.
If it's still doing it would you drive it up to the dealer? Am I likely to do more harm driving it the 70 miles? I could do without the cost of a trailer just for it to turn out to be nothing, or worse still arrange for a trailer and then have everything working fine when the trailer arrives.
Thanks
Eve
Had the same problem over winter when the battery went flat, i could not reset the warning, i thought by giving it a bit of a 
then restarting would sort it out, i rang my dealer who told me to get the car to them, i drove to the dealer plus my drive to try and cure problem total of 60/70 miles with out any problem.dealer reset on the lap top Roberts your mothers brother
then restarting would sort it out, i rang my dealer who told me to get the car to them, i drove to the dealer plus my drive to try and cure problem total of 60/70 miles with out any problem.dealer reset on the lap top Roberts your mothers brotherWell I had a sensor go. About November-ish, IIRC.
Must have done 100-150 miles between the warning first coming on...
(and it's
bl**dy annoying when it a) keeps beeping at you and b) won't let you see the screen you really want to)
...and getting it to the Garage. They didn't seem too concerned and it's been fine since....touches wood, of course!
Must have done 100-150 miles between the warning first coming on...
(and it's
bl**dy annoying when it a) keeps beeping at you and b) won't let you see the screen you really want to) ...and getting it to the Garage. They didn't seem too concerned and it's been fine since....touches wood, of course!
3 days in France last week. Around 250 miles each day.
Day 1 - EFI popped up every 2 minutes for an hour then went away. Quite a hot day with slow traffic.
Day 2 - no messages. Cooler day with fast blats.
Day 3 - EFI popped up every 2 minutes for 10 minutes and then stopped totally. Cooler day but heavy traffic.
Common denominator - heavy traffic and slow running. Other than that, I have no idea whatsoever
Day 1 - EFI popped up every 2 minutes for an hour then went away. Quite a hot day with slow traffic.
Day 2 - no messages. Cooler day with fast blats.
Day 3 - EFI popped up every 2 minutes for 10 minutes and then stopped totally. Cooler day but heavy traffic.
Common denominator - heavy traffic and slow running. Other than that, I have no idea whatsoever
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Common denominator - heavy traffic and slow running. Other than that, I have no idea whatsoever[/quote]
Sounds about
a few weeks back we went over to Spa for the 1000km, although I spent 3hrs in traffic on the M25.
Got to Dover - filled up with juice, parked on the ferry. When I started it up in Dunkirk, EFI warning came on, and stayed on, apart from a few 2/3 second intervals over the entire bloody weekend.
On the way home on the Sunday afternoon(after 760miles) the thing just turned itself off! How odd!
Common denominator - heavy traffic and slow running. Other than that, I have no idea whatsoever
[/quote] Sounds about
a few weeks back we went over to Spa for the 1000km, although I spent 3hrs in traffic on the M25. Got to Dover - filled up with juice, parked on the ferry. When I started it up in Dunkirk, EFI warning came on, and stayed on, apart from a few 2/3 second intervals over the entire bloody weekend.
On the way home on the Sunday afternoon(after 760miles) the thing just turned itself off! How odd!
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