Sedici Sedici engine management light

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Sedici Sedici engine management light

What car and which engine? Are there any symptoms ie rough running, lumpy idle etc?

Hi, and welcome to FF,

best starting point is to read the fault codes- record them, then try and clear the errors,
some will be historic( stored)

it's Active ones you need worry about, ;)
Charlie - Oxford

Does any body know what could cause my engine management light to stay on my fiat sedici

petrol or diesel..??:confused:
 
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It's a petrol 1.6 16v 4x4

I think it could do with ideling it goes from thousands revs and then just drops and when you pull away there is no reve total flat

Cheers and thankyou
 
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I have the same problems with my 2008 1.9 diesel Eleganza and have noticed other threads on this forum referring to it – indeed I was about to start another myself as my local (and trusted, but not especially Fiat familiar) garage is stumped by it. :doh: It "appears" to indicate a clogged DPF.

I've owned many Fiats (and Alfas, and Lancias) over the years and have always found their dealers relatively poor – yes, there have been exceptions – but thanks to retrenchment my nearest is now a 50 miles round trip away and over the phone they simply told me I needed a new DPF at a cost of £600-700 depending on the engine !!!!! Plus labour !!!!! Which I find unacceptable on a car with just 65k miles on it. :slayer:

After resetting the warning light, my garage did a bit of research which offered two possible, cheaper solutions. The first was to drive the car at a steady 50-60km/h for 30-35km which it "might" un-clog the filter. The second was to remove it and clean it with 'special' solvent, although that could damage the emissions system leading to yet higher expense. And they didn't want to take the risk. :(

I was – and still am – ready to sell my Sedici after just six months ownership because of this and other faults (see my Sedici Electrical Woes thread), when a chance visit to a motor factors yesterday found a bottle of Wynn's Diesel Filter Cleaner which claimed to rid the DPF of the detritus. I immediately emptied an bottle into my nearly full tank and drove for 30 miles and the previously poor acceleration, especially in the lower gears, greatly diminished although it still wasn't back up to original, turbo-charged ooomph. However the warning light, which had come back on five miles after leaving my garage, hasn't gone out and things still aren't back to 'normal'.

If anyone has an affordable and effective solution that won't also damage the engine – which, BTW, always seems to emit a high-pitched whine accelerating from cold-ish – I think many of us would be grateful and relieved to hear about it. :)
 
My local garage is having another go today: they've got the bit between their teeth! :eek:

Mark
 
Just got the car back from the garage. Only driven a couple of miles since but the reset warning light has remained off. ;) They told me that the diagnosed code was P2002 which equates with Diesel Particulate Trap (note not 'filter') has 'efficiency below threshold bank' – whatever that means?! :(

Fingers crossed then! :worship:
 
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