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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: DOCKERMEL on 27 February 2012, 07:11

Title: yellow exchaust light
Post by: DOCKERMEL on 27 February 2012, 07:11
 :angry: hi just picked up my red gti and on the drive home the warning light for the exchaust came on. phoned the guy i get it from and he said was fine when he had it and it didnt come on when i test drived it.. any ideas?? :shocked:
Title: Re: yellow exchaust light
Post by: MaXXeH on 27 February 2012, 20:15
did you trash it?    maybe the guy befor drove nice n you just moved all the sh!t lol.

You need vagcom really mate.
Title: Re: yellow exchaust light
Post by: DOCKERMEL on 28 February 2012, 07:36
Quote from: MaXXeH on 27 February 2012, 20:15
did you trash it?    maybe the guy befor drove nice n you just moved all the sh!t lol.

You need vagcom really mate.
   
 no i didnt.. o well off to the garage i go. hope its not serious.. :angry:
Title: Re: yellow exchaust light
Post by: AlanD on 01 March 2012, 13:42
Yeah, can be anything from small tiny thigns to big major things. You need to plugged into a laptop and the fault code read from it find out whats wrong. Hope it all goes well and keep us updated.
Title: Re: yellow exchaust light
Post by: DOCKERMEL on 01 March 2012, 18:34
 :angry: find a bloke at work who stuck it on a code reader came up something about running rich?? he's turned it off so will wait and see what happens :undecided:
Title: Re: yellow exchaust light
Post by: AlanD on 02 March 2012, 14:28
If its running rich, its running rich. Resetting it will just cause it come back on again because its running rich. Have you got all the details of the error code that was read from it? Running rich is often a side effect of a problem with your O2 sensors, the MK5 has 2 of them from memory.
Title: Re: yellow exchaust light
Post by: DOCKERMEL on 02 March 2012, 17:40
 :smiley:yer know what you saying :grin:,after reading more into this it tends to be cars with a stage 2 remap and a sports cat which suffer from this :cry:. mine has both so if and when it comes back on ill have to get it mapped out. the map was done at jabbasport but its miles away from where i live so ill have to find somewhere nearer and get them to look at it :smiley: