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check engine light
my S60 2011 just had the CEL come on. Less than 5K miles. Running fine. Last thing done to car a week ago fill washer fluid.
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BerniniCaCO3
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- Year and Model: V70XC / 2001
- Location: Towson, MD
Yup, just see the dealer.
No offense, but "I have a check engine light" is quite useless to help you with.
It can mean any of hundreds of codes, and those codes can, together, point to different root causes that have to be thought through and tested (i.e., O2 sensor bank 1 lean, does not just =replace O2 sensor!)
But I agree, at 5k, probably just a gas cap loose one day, maybe just one day last month.
I saw a car that had a "small evap leak detected" or was it very small leak? (i.e., probably a gas cap) early in September, and then, because it hadn't been able to complete an automatic evap leak test afterwards --it relies on certain conditions being met, hell if I know what they are-- it went ahead and triggered a CEL in mid October. That is to say, it saw a small leak just one time, one day, and because it hadn't been able to retest since and confirm one way or another, the CEL was turned on.
The CEL code was erased, the evap system was forced into test mode, it passed, end of story
Then, I've also seen a car with 5k that had an O2 sensor wire chewed through by a rodent. Barring that sort of damage, an O2 sensor won't go bad for a very long time.
No offense, but "I have a check engine light" is quite useless to help you with.
It can mean any of hundreds of codes, and those codes can, together, point to different root causes that have to be thought through and tested (i.e., O2 sensor bank 1 lean, does not just =replace O2 sensor!)
But I agree, at 5k, probably just a gas cap loose one day, maybe just one day last month.
I saw a car that had a "small evap leak detected" or was it very small leak? (i.e., probably a gas cap) early in September, and then, because it hadn't been able to complete an automatic evap leak test afterwards --it relies on certain conditions being met, hell if I know what they are-- it went ahead and triggered a CEL in mid October. That is to say, it saw a small leak just one time, one day, and because it hadn't been able to retest since and confirm one way or another, the CEL was turned on.
The CEL code was erased, the evap system was forced into test mode, it passed, end of story
Then, I've also seen a car with 5k that had an O2 sensor wire chewed through by a rodent. Barring that sort of damage, an O2 sensor won't go bad for a very long time.
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