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07-29-2006, 02:17 AM
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What does this mean?
While driving today, my oil light, brake light, traction and ABS light came on. As this happened, the ECU limited my speed from ~110 to 100.
They remained lit until I got home and restarted the engine. Any ideas on what exactly happened and why they came on?
sCANalyzer does not report any DTC error codes either.
oil + all fluid levels seem to be fine.
They remained lit until I got home and restarted the engine. Any ideas on what exactly happened and why they came on?
sCANalyzer does not report any DTC error codes either.
oil + all fluid levels seem to be fine.
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07-29-2006, 02:50 AM
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Originally Posted by xxup
Got plenty of oil in the engine and air in the tyres.??
EDIT: Where'd xxup's comments go? lol
07-29-2006, 03:07 AM
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Originally Posted by kunz
EDIT: Where'd xxup's comments go? lol
I had another look at your post and realised that you had checked the oil levels.. 
Reinforces my old teacher's comments "bright kid who can solve very complex problems, but sometimes lacks attention to detail" 
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Originally Posted by sco
Smells like a wiring fault to me. Loose connector to the PCM??
Thank for that, i'll check up on it tomorrow.
Any other suggestions?
07-30-2006, 07:08 AM
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hmmm while driving today on the highway again, the DSC light switched on and switched off 5 seconds later.
taking it to mazda tomorrow :\ what the hell is going on? lol
taking it to mazda tomorrow :\ what the hell is going on? lol
07-30-2006, 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by takahashi
Maybe the car hates you 
? I 
? I 
its just 'sick'
08-05-2006, 10:01 AM
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Good news pple, it was cos of a loose/dirty traction sensor.
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Yup. The car kept doing that every day until Thurs, even with speeds of around 70'ish and taking corners it felt as though the DSC was off.
Had the car booked in on Thursday - delivered to Westend at 8am. They plugged it into their computers and it showed a DTC "Mismatch" error code. (I'm still wondering why sCANalyzer didnt pick that one up hmm). Anyway, they went over everything, to check if it was all plugged in properly then took it for a test drive with their diagnostics computer and couple and could not find the problem.
I got called at 10am to come down and take the tech out as he could not duplicate the fault. Anyway, went down to the M4/great western hwy with him for around 20 minutes, and it didnt do anything. The car drove normally, took corners the way it does when DSC is turned on so I left it at that. They said it was most probalby a loose connection/dirty sensor cos thats all they actually checked before taking it for a test drive.
Its (almost) Sunday now and it hasnt played up since so i guess that was probably it.
Had the car booked in on Thursday - delivered to Westend at 8am. They plugged it into their computers and it showed a DTC "Mismatch" error code. (I'm still wondering why sCANalyzer didnt pick that one up hmm). Anyway, they went over everything, to check if it was all plugged in properly then took it for a test drive with their diagnostics computer and couple and could not find the problem.
I got called at 10am to come down and take the tech out as he could not duplicate the fault. Anyway, went down to the M4/great western hwy with him for around 20 minutes, and it didnt do anything. The car drove normally, took corners the way it does when DSC is turned on so I left it at that. They said it was most probalby a loose connection/dirty sensor cos thats all they actually checked before taking it for a test drive.
Its (almost) Sunday now and it hasnt played up since so i guess that was probably it.
08-05-2006, 11:59 PM
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Originally Posted by xxup
These are the sensors near the wheel????
mikeyr - the DSC lights (if only DSC) comes on when there is abnormal wheel speeds thus wheel spins. If you hit a pothole, then its pretty normal for the DSC to probably come on as there will be some minor difference in wheel speeds depending on which wheel goes over the bump etc.
If it comes on again during normal driving, then you might need to get it checked out.
