Engine Management Light

RobHoppo · Post by **RobHoppo** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:35 pm

Hi, i have a corsa 1.0l and yesterday when i was driving it the engine management light came up on the dash but there are no noticeable problems with the car. Any suggestions to what the problem is would be appreciated, thanks

jon-boi · Post by **jon-boi** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:01 pm

if you go to a garage they can plug it in for about £35 and they can clear any problems if there is any. hope this helps

RobHoppo · Post by **RobHoppo** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 5:41 pm

Sorted now mate, just went off by itself. Cheers for help anyway

sarahlou · Post by **sarahlou** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 6:54 pm

hi mine did it 2 times today,when i turned the engine on it stayed on then half way home went off,i went out again stayed on then went off after about 5 mins but it never did it again.like you no funny noisees or smells ect just worried thatt its gona be something expensive to fix

Blackie · Post by **Blackie** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:40 am

Could be the egr? It could trigger the eml and not affect how the car drives, common fault on the 1.0 12v and 1.2 16v's

DeanK · Post by **DeanK** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:45 am

The MAF Sensor can often get a little dirty, IIRC you have hot-wire systems, (provided yours is a modern Corsa

) and this involves a platinum wire with the air flowing passed it. They can often get cacked up a bit and mess up the signal and then clear themselves up after a few start-ups

DK

sarahlou · Post by **sarahlou** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:33 pm

hi mines an s reg so its the older one someone else has it it could be the egr valve needs cleanin ive been told to get some wd-40 and clean it but i dont know how to clean it or even where the dam thing is lol x

RobHoppo · Post by **RobHoppo** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:47 pm

One of my mates is a mechanic and he said it could be because i've just had the exhaust replaced. mines an s reg too but only got 34,000 miles on it haha

sarahlou · Post by **sarahlou** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:03 pm

you lucky sod how the hell did you get an s reg with 34,000 miles haha mines just gone round the clock but other than the odd time the enigine light comes on she runs great i love me little chav wagon

Blackie · Post by **Blackie** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:17 pm

RobHoppo wrote:One of my mates is a mechanic and he said it could be because i've just had the exhaust replaced. mines an s reg too but only got 34,000 miles on it haha

Changing the exhaust should have nowt to do with the eml! Not unless the front pipe has been changed and the lambda sensor has not been fitted or has been damaged during the exhaust replacement.

RobHoppo · Post by **RobHoppo** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:03 am

haha i got it off this old man and woman and i've got full service history and all mots

only cost me £600

corsadeb · Post by **corsadeb** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 10:05 pm

hi mate if you run them low on fuel loads of crap gets in all i did was top up with fuel and gave it a blast down a dual carrage way and it went

RobHoppo · Post by **RobHoppo** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:22 pm

yeah thats probably what it was mate haha, mines always on low fuel lol

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