53 reg 1.4 16V BBZ engine

 

Driving home yesterday I had piercing beeps and a flashing red EML light.

Everything seemed quite normal, engine working nicely as usual.

Stopped and checked obvious things, oil, water, lose wires etc. Drove on cautiously at first but normally after a few miles as everything seemed fine, no warning light until 40 miles later and near home when it happened again followed by a continual flashing light with no beeps.

No misfires, no lack of power, no high coolant temperature so I'm a bit puzzled at the panic exhibited by the car

 

This morning the car started perfectly well and scanning with my cheap code readers results in 'no codes'

 

Any ideas ?

I thought the EML was (only) yellow?

Sure it wasn't the light under the coolant temperature gauge?  Could just be a cracked solder joint on the instrument cluster circuitboard, giving a false low coolant warning?

 

thanks for the prompt reply. 

 

My thoughts were that it was a false alarm caused by the usual Fabia wire/connector rot

 

The light was in the display panel where circled, not the usual orange light in the speedo dial.

 

 

 

Looking at this image from the owners manual.  I think maybe an oil pressure warning?

Disconnect and examine the oil pressure switch connector (next to the EGR valve) for oiliness and the  wire coming from it for damage if there's no oil around.

Edited 26 July, 20232 yr by Breezy_Pete

Thank you Pete,

 

There's some oily dust around the switch and connector, I've ordered a new one. Hoping it's as easy as that.

 

Must get to Specsavers too, from the driving position it looked like the EML shape, can't lean and peer closely when driving and it's out when you stop.

3 hours ago, totoro said:

a flashing red EML light.

Based on @Breezy_Pete posting, I'm fairly sure that was low oil pressure.

All sorted, there was not too much oil around the switch but taking the connector off revealed that the fitting was full of it, a cheap replacement is now fitted, all tickety boo.

 

 

It's a good job I did not throw away the old imperial open ended spanners, the one inch one came into play

 

Thanks for your help.

1 hour ago, totoro said:

All sorted, there was not too much oil around the switch but taking the connector off revealed that the fitting was full of it, a cheap replacement is now fitted, all tickety boo.

 

 

It's a good job I did not throw away the old imperial open ended spanners, the one inch one came into play

 

Thanks for your help.

 

You could have used the 25mm from the metric set instead!

Probably didn't have anything as big as the 24mm required in metric, I'll guess.

9 minutes ago, Breezy_Pete said:

Probably didn't have anything as big as the 24mm required in metric, I'll guess.

 

I guessed that as well, it was an attempt at humour, sorry, I won't do it again...

On 26/07/2023 at 12:51, totoro said:

Thank you Pete,

 

There's some oily dust around the switch and connector, I've ordered a new one. Hoping it's as easy as that.

 

Must get to Specsavers too, from the driving position it looked like the EML shape, can't lean and peer closely when driving and it's out when you stop.

I share your frustration, often the warning lights go out very quickly or do not remain when you next switch on the ignition in daylight and/or wearing close vision glasses, I had a weird light and whilst like you I knew where it was displayed and what colour nothing like it came up on the start-up self test, nothing even remotely like it in the manual and I had to do loads of googling to find what the symbol was which even when clear on the computer screen nobody would have made the connection to the fault it was supposed to show.

 

Glad you found the problem 👍

I'm pretty sure that I use an imperial 15/16" AF open ended spanner against a 24mm socket on M16 towball bolts and not 1" AF.

 

25mm will likely work on a low torque application like a sensor but will risk rounding off the bolt head, 1" AF even more risky.

24 minutes ago, J.R. said:

I'm pretty sure that I use an imperial 15/16" AF open ended spanner against a 24mm socket on M16 towball bolts and not 1" AF.

 

25mm will likely work on a low torque application like a sensor but will risk rounding off the bolt head, 1" AF even more risky.

 

It's a low torque application, just nipped it up plus a bit more.

 

Having looked again at the spanner it is 9/16 Whitworth, the other end, 1/2 W would fit with judicious tapping with a hammer.

 

My policy of never throwing away something that might be useful in the future pays off once again.