Anyone with a code reader in Morecambe area?

[Z0m81e]

Up visiting the girlfriends family in Morecambe and the check engine light came on this morning. Anyone in the general vicinity have a code reader I could use to check the fault code and make sure its not anything major before I head back to Bristol tomorrow?

cheers,
Paul

[Kiwi1]

I have a scangauge II, that reads codes, and can also clear them.

I'm over near Blackburn, if that's any use to you. ( M6 South , M65 )

[Z0m81e]

Thanks for the offer, fired it up to get petrol this morning and it had cleared. Assuming it doesn't come back once it warms up I should be fine.

[extra330]

I live in Morecambe andhave the Torque blootooth if thats of any use to you

[ringram]

If it drives fine its not major.

If it fails into limp mode you will know, then you should get it checked. But for the most part sensors are ECU related and there to keep the engine running nicely tune wise.

Id suggest a sensor never advised anyone of a engine failure before the fact.

[Z0m81e]

Thanks for the offer extra. Drove back today car went fine, read the fault with torque when I got back it was bank 1 catalyst efficiency so nothing too interesting. I presume just a side effect of the sports cats although they've been on there a while and it hasn't happened before.

In other news i'm still having issues with the auto box getting wedged in second gear. Did it to be leaving the M6 at Lancaster I had it in just in drive no sport mode. As I came off the motorway it seemed to be downshifting early half way between a normal shift and the 'asbo mode' downshifts it does in sport if you hoof it. Then when I went through the lights and started to accelerate again it stayed in second up to about 4,000 revs easily (still just in drive). I shifted into manual select cycled the dash indicator all the way up to 6th and back down then put it into drive and it unstuck and changed up. Was fine for the rest of the drive. This only seems to have been a problem since it was serviced I think i'm going to have to check if they did anything to the fluid I wonder if there is either the wrong amount or the wrong type in the box.

Paul

[r-kid]

Z0m81e said:

In other news i'm still having issues with the auto box getting wedged in second gear. Did it to be leaving the M6 at Lancaster I had it in just in drive no sport mode. As I came off the motorway it seemed to be downshifting early half way between a normal shift and the 'asbo mode' downshifts it does in sport if you hoof it. Then when I went through the lights and started to accelerate again it stayed in second up to about 4,000 revs easily (still just in drive). I shifted into manual select cycled the dash indicator all the way up to 6th and back down then put it into drive and it unstuck and changed up. Was fine for the rest of the drive. This only seems to have been a problem since it was serviced I think i'm going to have to check if they did anything to the fluid I wonder if there is either the wrong amount or the wrong type in the box.

Paul

Gearbox flare? I've had this a couple of times.

More info here:
http://forum.grrrr8.net/showthread.php?t=14829

[Z0m81e]

r-kid said:

Gearbox flare? I've had this a couple of times.

More info here:
http://forum.grrrr8.net/showthread.php?t=14829

Interesting, as well as getting occasionally wedged in second it has also been exhibiting rough 2-3rd gear shifts for the last couple of months on and off power. Its most noticeable changing under power where there is a noticeable loss of drive followed by a pause and a fairly quick reapplication of power that will spin up the back tyres if one isn't paying enough attention. Under more normal driving conditions its just a bit 'clunky' for lack of a better term. I guess i'll have to look up a gearbox specialist in Bristol and see what they have to say not sure taking it to Vauxhall is going to be worth the effort.

Thanks for the info, have you had it looked at on yours or are you living with it for now?

Paul

[r-kid]

I've lived with it as its only happened half a dozen times or so in the five years I've owned the car. So it never became an annoyance for me to get it looked at.

It's kinda a moot point for me now as I should be changing the car this weekend.