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Anonymous
Posted 17/10/2009 14:55:22




light stays on when driving car ticks over fine but misses when driving mainly in 2nd gear car been stood for 4 month with petrol in
Post #682
Posted 09/11/2009 18:45:07
Supreme Being

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Hi

Sounds as if it's got generally damp when it's been standing.  Clean the spark plugs, dry the plug leads and try WD 40 on all the HT side of the ignition to cure the misfire.  Check underbonnet and under dash fuse boxes for damp to see if that's the indicator problem.  Otherwise, check the earths on all the light units - it may be that one light is earthing back through the indicator circuit.

Hope that helps

Tim

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Anonymous
Posted 24/01/2010 15:46:20




hi have a dawoo nabria was fine but now revvs are high, any ideas
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Posted 17/02/2010 12:32:24
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Sticking idle speed control unit or a sticky throttle cable

Tim

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Anonymous
Posted 14/04/2010 20:57:22




Hi Tim,

Have recently bought a Matiz and the Malfunction Indicator Light was been stuck on for the last couple of days. From your previous posting could i just please confirm that the best things to check on a faulty MIL is that the fuse box isn't damp and that all the fuses are earthed and not being rooted through the MIL. Hope I've understood you correctly. Thanks for your time.

Sally
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Posted 07/05/2010 14:31:42
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Hi

In case you haven't solved this yet, the MIL I think you're talking about is the engine management system warning light.  This is controlled by the engine management computer, which turns it on when it detects that readings from one or more sensors is not what it expects.  The computer also (conveniently) stores information about what the fault is in the form of a code.  A garage with a standard EOBD code reader will be able to plug it in to your car and get the information about the fault (EOBD stands for European On Board Diagnostics).  The faults are usually poor connections or a faulty sensor.

Tim

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