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Old 01-07-2004, 10:55 AM
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Default Check engine light came on last night. Any options other than to get it hooked up to a Vagcom?
Car is a 98.5 1.8T (non-DBW). Manual says it's either polution control stuff or road speed sensors. Any way to narrow that down without the VAGCOM?
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Default what do you notice?
Any thing you can tell is wrong with it?
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a loose gas cap will cause the same thing too.
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or an O2 sensor, or a vacuum leak, or a dirty MAF or thousand other things
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So what drives the sensor? Surely all of these items are not connected to the warning light.
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Thanks, it's worth checking. Does the seal fail on those or is it just that it's not tight enough?
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Where are u located? If you are in DC/NOVA I'll vag your car for ya.
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Default Just not putting back on tight after refueling. It will take a week or so to clear on it's own w/o a
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Default Nothing. Runs and sounds perfect. Boost normal, temps normal, charge normal. It's been K04'd for
50K miles now and no codes thrown. The weather here lately has been colder than normal and ranged between 20F to 32F with snow and slushy road conditions. Lot's of anitlock action so I thought maybe the road speed sensor may have been affected.
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Thanks bud but I'm in Vancouver.
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