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Offline Upperoilcan

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Re: Exhaust gas warning light..
« Reply #10 on: 28 June 2010, 07:57 »
Well ive driven the 3 miles to work this morning and the light has remained off......

Many thanks to Topher for the head's up.
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Offline Saint Steve

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Re: Exhaust gas warning light..
« Reply #11 on: 28 June 2010, 08:29 »
The exhaust warning light apparently does come from time to time, especially if your running an aftermarket exhaust and do several very short journeys, which can cause this to also happen. I havent refueled when my light appeared after it had been stood for 6 hours unused in the Blazing sun.

Ive been told its nothing to worry about from a TFSI tuning specialist.
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Offline Davstylee

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Re: Exhaust gas warning light..
« Reply #12 on: 28 June 2010, 09:15 »
This is what happened when my exhaust warning light came on so might be worth plugging it into VAG COM/VCDS to see if there are any error codes.

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=138239.0
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Re: Exhaust gas warning light..
« Reply #13 on: 14 July 2010, 11:07 »
Well it happened again on Sunday,stayed on for 24hrs but has now gone off,it's with the Stealer today to find out what's wrong aswell as having the high level brake light looked at...........
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Offline weston

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Re: Exhaust gas warning light..
« Reply #14 on: 14 July 2010, 20:43 »
3 clicks on the fuel cap got mine to go off, it's been back to the dealer and they've checked it out for 4 hours and this was all that was needed!!
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Offline chinc

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Re: Exhaust gas warning light..
« Reply #15 on: 17 April 2012, 18:10 »
Quote from: topher on 27 June 2010, 20:49
go out and tighten your petrol cap a couple of clicks, it sounds daft but it effects the evap system. You're supposed to turn 3 clicks apparently.. but you probably need a couple more as the cap/seal ages.

Amazing. My 56 Jetta 2.0 FSI (completely unmodified) popped the light on Sunday. I scanned it today with a cheapo reader off Amazon which reported "no codes" which started to make me think that I'd wasted my money on the reader and that I should have just bought VCDS. Having found this thread via google I tightened the fuel cap up and the light has gone out now :) (I had filled it up earlier on Sunday). I'm amazed that it's not happened before in the last 5 and a half years and 80K miles.

Huge thanks, I was worrying about bill of many hundreds...
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