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Old Aug 14, 2010 | 05:52 PM
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Was driving down to my sisters car was driving fine, i decided to open her up alittle and took it to 150ish and all of a sudden the engine light has come on, its driving fine, i got to my sisters and parked up. Havent started the car since, this was about an hour ago. WHAT COULD IT BE????
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Old Aug 14, 2010 | 05:55 PM
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it will have come up with 1131 error at a guess, you have hit the speed limiter id say.
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Should i be worried??? how do i check the code?
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Old Aug 14, 2010 | 06:08 PM
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Should i start the car up again and see if the light has cleared??
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Old Aug 14, 2010 | 06:15 PM
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what do you mean by 150ish

did you mean 150mph

thats not opening her up thats redlining all gears

thats maybe why the check light came on

ecu sensed something was wrong and threw up the error
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Old Aug 14, 2010 | 06:21 PM
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is it any wonder driving at 150 mph no wonder we are getting a bad name for ourselves
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Old Aug 14, 2010 | 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by stevemoir
what do you mean by 150ish

did you mean 150mph
No, RPM of course, unless the sister lives at the end of a dis-used runway

Awaits the response of the 'holier than thou' brigade
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Old Aug 14, 2010 | 09:36 PM
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i just wanted to see what it could do, dont usually drive it hard!!!
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Originally Posted by JazzRST
...driving down to my sisters... decided to open her up a little...
Keeping it in the family.

Sorry, that's actually really offensive - no harm meant.
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Old Aug 15, 2010 | 12:54 AM
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^^^^^^^^^^^^Your true colours shining through Joz
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Hoot.
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