General Possible EML light?

[spudley1988]

hey folks, theres a light on my seicento dash thats driving me crazy recently, its the wee torch kinda looking light to the left of the dipped headlights symbol. It started a few weeks ago whilst i was driving about 30mph, car gave a huge judder as if trying to stall and that light came on for about 3-5 seconds and car started running fine again. Then last week at about 45mph the light came on again for about 5 seconds but no symptoms happened, just light appearing. now its a lot more frequent ( last night 5 times in half an hour, still only staying on for 5 seconds) but theres no change in the cars behaviour all the time, just every so often has a violent shudder when light appears, when i drive along tho and try to keep a steady pace i can feel her trying to hold back a little. Anybody any suggestions other than my neighbours petrol and lighter solution

 

[Eklipze3k]

Best case scenario - bung some Redex in there and give her a 'red-line' service, sounds like the injectors are gunked up and need clearing out.

 

[rallycinq]

Before a 'redline service' when did it last have a regular service and how many filters were changed?

Is this an SPi car?

Cheers

D

 

[spudley1988]

it had plugs leads etc done about a month or so ago, as well as headgasket being done. It hasnt had fuel filter done i dont think so doing that today, also if it helps to identify problem it struggles to start when its hot, starts fine on a cold start but sounds like its got a major lumpy cam until a few minutes pass. Final thing to which i notice is wrong which may help is the smell once cars turned off, from under drivers door and from the tail pipes, its shtinking

 

[dronenrs]

what does it smell of ? petrol smell. eggy smell ??

 

[rallycinq]

SPi or MPi?

Guessing SPi by the sound of the motif, time to open the bonnet in the dark to see if any sparks are going awol.

Cheers

D

 

[spudley1988]

id be more inclined to say a petrol smell, but the cat does smell eggy at points as well, what would looking for blue sparks indicate and yea it is a spi

 

[rallycinq]

The management light comes on intermitantly because its seeing something it isn't happy about and can't adjust it.

So its an intermittant fault in a connection or of a sensor.

The easiest one to start with is to ensure that all the sparks are inside the engine, not outside. A blue spark at the coil can indicated a breakdown of the coil insulation or the lead.

At the plug end, usually a lead issue.

Cheers

D

 

[spudley1988]

thanks for the info, all have a scoot about after a power nap