can i do damage to my engine if i keep useing my car with this fult as need car for work. also done about 2000 miles with eml light on. just thort it was down to old codes that was stored as i put new engine in.due to bottom end going.only just found garage that can read ecu car is booked in next week for new injetors hope thats wots up

 

Can you tell us a bit more about what your car is doing or not doing, and what specific error code you've got?

On the face of what you've said so far, if an injector is failing, there is an obvious risk of the cylinder associated with it running lean under boost, and if that's happening there certainly is potential for damage.

FWIW you don't need a garage to read fault codes off a classic shape Impreza. You can do it yourself just by connecting two plugs under the dash together and reading the light flash sequence from the check engine light. Search for "black plugs" and all will be revealed.

 

my car seems to be running fine but this is the first subaru i have hade .the garage just sead that the coumpter read injetor 4

 

Hmmm. Before you go any further, especially shelling out on injectors and the labour to change them (you could do this yourself in an hour) with this garage, I'd try the black plugs procedure and tell us what error code number(s) you get.

 

flash/flash.then 2 quick flashes
flash.then 7 quick flashes thanks for helping me

 

 

think i have worked the codes out(22 knock sensor)(17 injetor 4)

 

Yes, two slow flashes and two quick ones = code 22, one slow flash and seven quick ones = code 17. You've got it!

Garage didn't spot the knock sensor one then did they? Iffy position to be in that, as a failing injector might cause a lot of knock, and if your knock sensor is erroring... Wouldn't drive the car too much until you can have it looked at properly.

 

think im just going to take injetors out and send off get them cleaned as one garage sead £150 labor as its a 3 hour job and thay charge 55 an hour and £40 to tell me wot codes come up witch i no 17 / 22
from wot i can see it may take an hour to change a set of injetors tell me if i am wroung

 

Yeah that's fair comment, injectors are pretty easy to pull and refit - probably quicker than spark plugs. Have you asked Mark at Lateral Performance how much he'd charge to give them a look over? Probably the best place to start.

 

have you got a number, i pulled the injetcor to day and i was all of about 15 min at the most 3 hours trying to rip me off

 

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