Werid Idle Issue + CEL Missing...
Posted: April 5th, 2010, 4:18 am
Hi,
Two days ago my car for the first time started to have a problem.
What happens is when I am preparing to come to a stop at for example traffic lights and I take the car out of gear the revs drop down to between the two lines at the lowest point on the rev counter and the car starts to shake. Sometimes the revs will recover and bounce between this low point and around 500rpm but most of the time the car just dies. This also happens if im going for example at 70mph and just knock it out of gear and coast the revs drop low and the car stalls.
After searching the forum for the past two days I thought I had found what to do which was to see if the car was holding any error codes and potentially adjusting the idle myself. So I found the correct diagram of the diagnositcs socket to know which pins to connect, I connected them and sat in the car with a pad and pen ready to note any down. Turned the ignition on and there was no engine management light (CEL) turning on, which I thought was strange but then again I have never noticed it turn on before either.
On further investigation aka removing the clocks to see if a bulb had gone I discovered that my car does NOT have an engine management light (CEL)... but it does have a light that if you shine a torch behind the clocks says "HOLD" whatever that is. So if my car does not have an engine management light (CEL) how do I check the error codes if there are any?
My car is a 1996 1.6 DOHC UK model.
Also does anyone have any idea what might be causing the idle issue?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Two days ago my car for the first time started to have a problem.
What happens is when I am preparing to come to a stop at for example traffic lights and I take the car out of gear the revs drop down to between the two lines at the lowest point on the rev counter and the car starts to shake. Sometimes the revs will recover and bounce between this low point and around 500rpm but most of the time the car just dies. This also happens if im going for example at 70mph and just knock it out of gear and coast the revs drop low and the car stalls.
After searching the forum for the past two days I thought I had found what to do which was to see if the car was holding any error codes and potentially adjusting the idle myself. So I found the correct diagram of the diagnositcs socket to know which pins to connect, I connected them and sat in the car with a pad and pen ready to note any down. Turned the ignition on and there was no engine management light (CEL) turning on, which I thought was strange but then again I have never noticed it turn on before either.
On further investigation aka removing the clocks to see if a bulb had gone I discovered that my car does NOT have an engine management light (CEL)... but it does have a light that if you shine a torch behind the clocks says "HOLD" whatever that is. So if my car does not have an engine management light (CEL) how do I check the error codes if there are any?
My car is a 1996 1.6 DOHC UK model.
Also does anyone have any idea what might be causing the idle issue?
Thanks in advance for any help.