Hi set off in my 500x and it started misfiring and lost power then engine management light came on and said check engine I had only drove down road so limped it home and on way power came back but engine management light has stayed on, has any body had same issue or any advice please
Technical Misfire and engine management light on
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Technical Misfire and engine management light on
If the engine management light is on, it means there is an error code in the ECU.
You can get that read and it will point you in the right direction.
If yours is a 1.4, it could be a problem with a coil, for example, which is not as serious as the symptoms sound) .. or you could have a faulty lambda sensor etc. The car goes into limp mode when it thinks something fairly serious has gone wrong but if it's a sensor at fault then the actual "fault" is the sensor, so it's fairly simple to fix.
Ralf S.
You can get that read and it will point you in the right direction.
If yours is a 1.4, it could be a problem with a coil, for example, which is not as serious as the symptoms sound) .. or you could have a faulty lambda sensor etc. The car goes into limp mode when it thinks something fairly serious has gone wrong but if it's a sensor at fault then the actual "fault" is the sensor, so it's fairly simple to fix.
Ralf S.
I had this recently and codes read misfire on cylinders 1 and 3, put some new plugs in and swopped the coil packs to eliminate them, turned out new plugs did the trick, they still had 3k left to service interval but not the end of the world
