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12-08-08, 10:07 AM
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C.E.L is on and goes off.......
I got a 2000 gs300,for the last month I've been getting a check engine light that will come on for a few days and it will go back off for a few days. I don't drive the car as much as I used too, but I am wondering what it could be since the car still runs well.
I tried to take it to the dealer but they told me to bring it in when the light is on. Of course it never comes on when I decide to take it in.
Anyone know something I can check for that might make it throw a cel?
I tried to take it to the dealer but they told me to bring it in when the light is on. Of course it never comes on when I decide to take it in.
Anyone know something I can check for that might make it throw a cel?
12-08-08, 10:30 AM
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It could be many things...
I call BS on the dealer, the code is stored.
Unless you get the codes read using a OBDII reader all we could do is guess and nothing more.
I call BS on the dealer, the code is stored.
Unless you get the codes read using a OBDII reader all we could do is guess and nothing more.
12-08-08, 12:49 PM
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The only ways that you can ask the service writers is ...to speak to the master tech..they'll give you some advices on the opt code..Usually, the writers doesn't know a things....Any codes that pops on and off will be stored in the PGM...
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i'll try autozone wednesday when im off work. i didn't know autozone could scan for free.
btw today it came back on when i started the car and went off when i punched the gas to merge into traffic on the freeway.
btw today it came back on when i started the car and went off when i punched the gas to merge into traffic on the freeway.
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its funny you said that because my heat shield was rattling about 4 or 5 months ago and i took it to a muffler shop and they thought that the rattle was coming from the cat, so they cut it out and looked at it , and welded it back on and said nothing was wrong with it. so they put a couple of tack welds by the heat shield and the rattle went away.
now please tell me that it was alright for them to do that?
if not... when i have it checked out , if they say its the cat, i will be pissed
now please tell me that it was alright for them to do that?
if not... when i have it checked out , if they say its the cat, i will be pissed
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The fonz is the man! From the 70's to the present. Cleaned the maf reset the ecu and bam! The cel is gone.