Engine light

esellek

Hi everyone
Firstly, I can change a tyre and do the oil, but I do not know about a light that has come on but it looks scary. It's the engine emissions one.

It came on yesterday driving back from work (home to work is a 25 min journey down mainly country roads before I hit a road that has a white line down the middle!). The car didn't change in terms of having a feeling of losing power, not that I go fast down the country roads, don't get above 50 generally (being wary of pheasants, deer and other small things trying to cross roads), and the light didn't flash.

I'm pre-empting going to the garage and for mechanics/people who know more about cars than me, out there, so I don't look completely stupid, what I might be up against in terms of is the car going to die, or could it be rescued.

He's a Zafira 2008 1.9 diesel. Neighbour has a box thing and the light went out. He's been out for a run this morning (got up to 60) to the shops, light didn't come on, but then about 5 mins from home it reappeared.

Worst case scenario could I be looking at the car failing it's MOT - due early July. Or, happy scenario, it's could be something 'small' and is not going to break me as I can't afford a new car and the bus journey to work will take me over 2.5 hours one way!

Thank you

jrrowleyws

Get diagnostics done on it. Might want to Google if you can do a pedal test to read the fault codes (a lot of vauxhalls have the ability), if not you'll need to get it plugged in. Likely emissions related, could be cat (£££) might be a sensor.

jrrowleyws

Read the first few posts on here and give the pedal test a go

https://www.vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk/index.php?threads/vauxhall-fault-codes-pedal-trick-test-does-not-work-on-the-corsa-d.202018/

Geodark

esellek wrote: »

Hi everyone
Firstly, I can change a tyre and do the oil, but I do not know about a light that has come on but it looks scary. It's the engine emissions one.

It came on yesterday driving back from work (home to work is a 25 min journey down mainly country roads before I hit a road that has a white line down the middle!). The car didn't change in terms of having a feeling of losing power, not that I go fast down the country roads, don't get above 50 generally (being wary of pheasants, deer and other small things trying to cross roads), and the light didn't flash.

I'm pre-empting going to the garage and for mechanics/people who know more about cars than me, out there, so I don't look completely stupid, what I might be up against in terms of is the car going to die, or could it be rescued.

He's a Zafira 2008 1.9 diesel. Neighbour has a box thing and the light went out. He's been out for a run this morning (got up to 60) to the shops, light didn't come on, but then about 5 mins from home it reappeared.

Worst case scenario could I be looking at the car failing it's MOT - due early July. Or, happy scenario, it's could be something 'small' and is not going to break me as I can't afford a new car and the bus journey to work will take me over 2.5 hours one way!

Thank you

Do when he plugged hid box in did he read the stored error codes from the ecu?