Exhaust emission light - what to do?

CymruPolo · Post by **CymruPolo** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:56 pm

When I was driving home from work tonight I came from a 50mph zone onto a dual carriage way and as I was accelerating I felt a judder. Initially I thought I went over a bump but the car felt like it lost a bit of power and the exhaust emission light came on. Then a few seconds later it went off and the car felt normal again.

Any idea what could be wrong? Do I need a new exhaust? a mate of mine did mention he thought it was blowing a bit a month or so ago.

oscar olop gti · Post by **oscar olop gti** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:18 pm

Try & get your car over a pit or on a ramp & see if you can find where its
blowing from. Might be the cat if the emission light came on.

Think mines blowing from that area at the minute, need to check.

Hope you get it sorted.

CymruPolo · Post by **CymruPolo** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:08 pm

Does it make any difference to the car at all? Apart that it would fail an MOT lol.

Mouse_GTI · Post by **Mouse_GTI** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:14 pm

Mine juddered a bit when misfire after I got water in the spark plugs, light came on too

CymruPolo · Post by **CymruPolo** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:24 pm

Mouse_GTI wrote:Mine juddered a bit when misfire after I got water in the spark plugs, light came on too

Did you have to do anything to sort it out?

Mouse_GTI · Post by **Mouse_GTI** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:10 am

Had to leave them to dry out and get out the moisture using kitchen tissue. Car was fine after that

CymruPolo · Post by **CymruPolo** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:59 pm

It was fine today, so who knows

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:43 am

CymruPolo wrote:It was fine today, so who knows

I hate that, your glad that it gone but unsure about whether to cehck it out or not because it maybe be nothing or a problem developing!

Dee-vub · Post by **Dee-vub** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:43 pm

yeh something weird happened to mines a couple days ago.

Drove home, turned the car off....went back out like an hour later and noticed the fan was on....i was like hmmmmm! So tried to start the car, but no surprise that the fan had drained the battery! Nightmare!

So i took out the fuse and put the battery on charge....once charged, fired her into action, stuck the fuse back in and the fan was fine.

weeeeeird!

CymruPolo · Post by **CymruPolo** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:22 pm

It's fine today aswell. Might have been a one off, I hope so anyway.

Post by **alexperkins** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:43 am

The sensors do panic sometimes - if it comes back, keep an eye on it