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ian grant

ian grant

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Hi,

Drove down to Gatwick on Sunday night, nice steady drive nothing spectacular and the car never missed a beat.

Started it up on Monday morning as normal and it ran rough for the first minute or so and during this time the orange engine light flashed on and off.

I didn't rev the engine or put it under any load (just left it ticking over roughly) and then after about a minute the light went off and the engine ran smoothly again.

The car ran perfectly well on the way home - even recording 50.1 mpg according to the OBD after doing a steady 65-70 all the way back.

Its not done this before or since.

Should I take it in and have it checked out do you think or might it just be a Fiat 'quirk'!?
 
If you're getting 50mpg out of it, it's probably complaining you aren't using it properly :p

Definitely worth getting it checked out by the dealer though as it should have logged a fault code to say what it thought was wrong. :D

Chris
 
Mine has done this twice in the past year and I put it down to the cold start system not kicking in. I asume, as this will be contolled by the ECM, that explained the flashing warning light. As with yours, once I got it running, it ran perfectly. When I had it serviced, the garage checked the fault log, which was empty.

The only thing I can think of is that both times I may have pressed the accelerator by mistake while starting, disengaging the cold start system........only a theory. :confused:
 
ScoobyChris said:
If you're getting 50mpg out of it, it's probably complaining you aren't using it properly :p

Definitely worth getting it checked out by the dealer though as it should have logged a fault code to say what it thought was wrong. :D

Chris
Click to expand...

:ROFLMAO:

Thanks for the replies folks - might just pop it in and have it checked out (the car that is!)
 
My 4x4 with the 1.2 petrol engine used to occasionally do this on first start up on a cold morning.
At the time I posted on this site and the opinion was that it seemed to be an ECU mapping fault not uncommon on the engine and not curable, so I took it no further.
 
ian grant said:
Hi,

Drove down to Gatwick on Sunday night, nice steady drive nothing spectacular and the car never missed a beat.

Started it up on Monday morning as normal and it ran rough for the first minute or so and during this time the orange engine light flashed on and off.

I didn't rev the engine or put it under any load (just left it ticking over roughly) and then after about a minute the light went off and the engine ran smoothly again.

The car ran perfectly well on the way home - even recording 50.1 mpg according to the OBD after doing a steady 65-70 all the way back.

Its not done this before or since.

Should I take it in and have it checked out do you think or might it just be a Fiat 'quirk'!?
Click to expand...

My car was doing this for a short time (during winter and rain!) and found it to be one of the leads shorting out:confused:. I replaced the plugs and leads and now no problems at all. Maybe something to check?? :eek:
 
brookes745 said:
Mine has done this twice in the past year and I put it down to the cold start system not kicking in. I asume, as this will be contolled by the ECM.

The only thing I can think of is that both times I may have pressed the accelerator by mistake while starting, disengaging the cold start system........only a theory. :confused:
Click to expand...

Whats this cold start system you talk of? No chokes on fuel injection ;)
 
Thanks for all the replies and advice folks (y)

Ive got a couple of days off this week so Ive booked it into Platts so they can plug it in and check it out. Will let you know what they say.

Must admit though, its not done it since so maybe it was just a 'one off'?

Ian.
 
As this is happening at start up I would be looking at Pre cat lambda sensors..:chin:
 
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