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Spurious Fault Warning
This is a discussion on Spurious Fault Warning within the Maintenance & Performance forums, part of the General Motoring Discussions category; I had just started the car on Saturday morning, and hadn't driven more than a few yards, when the fault ...
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13-07-2003, 08:39
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| Spurious Fault Warning I had just started the car on Saturday morning, and hadn't driven more than a few yards, when the fault warning system decided to give me a fright. The red "thermometer" icon lit up, and the multi-function display showed "STOP! check coolant". I missed the rest of the warning message. Anyway, I stopped, looked where I had been parked - no puddles on the ground - opened the bonnet and checked the coolant tank - well above the "min" level. Started up again - no warning. Drove on, keeping an eye on the temperature gauge, which moved up to "normal", and sat there. Is this likely to be a warning of impending doom, or should I just treat it as a glitch (maybe the mythical alpha particle flipping a bit in the ECU's cache memory)?
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13-07-2003, 13:07
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| MY Senator had a similar fault which I cured by fitting a new coolant bottle cap with sensor.
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13-07-2003, 13:40
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| sounds like a expasion tank sensor playing up to me
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