[monley]

Hey guys,

Driving to work today, my engine light come up on dash - thats happens every so often, but usually sorts its self out. Today was diffrent tho. It started flashing, then it would stop flashing, then start again. Anyone have any idea what could be causing the flashing engine light? It had the EGR vavle replaced about 2 months ago and that's what making it throw errors codes before Could the vavle be fuked again? It also had a slightly rough idle and is using a shit load more fuel than usal aswell

I can't get the car to Suzuki for a couple of weeks as I'm out on site and need my car.


Cheers.

[monley]

Car is 2009 VVT jimny.

[Blakey]

could be a problem with the mass airflow sensor as a similar thing happens to my other car when i get that sensor wet as its a hot filament, and if it get wet or dirty it cant get as hot as it should telling the ECU it has allot more air then it really does so it ups the fuel to keep the air fuel ratio correctish, and can cause a large increase of fuel and rough idle. it would be easy to fix if the sensor isn't broken, just clean it. (but id look it up first i believe you have to use metho or similar)

another problem might be the idle bypass valve in the throttle body (if the jimny has it? im not sure.) but if it was that i cannot see why it would cause an increase of fuel

[atari4x4]

pull the error codes.

[steak_knife]

atari4x4 wrote:

pull the error codes.

[Fatzook]

steak_knife wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

pull the error codes.

Tech Stek is back!!

[zukenutter]

Fatzook wrote:

steak_knife wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

pull the error codes.

Tech Stek is back!!

[jimny_timmy]

Did you count the flashes?

[monley]

jimny_timmy wrote:

Did you count the flashes?

Yep...but that was a fail, cus it would flash 20 times, then it would go solid for 10seconds, then flash 3 time's, then go solid for 1 min, then it would go away, then it would flash 8 times etc.... I used about 18 Liter's of fuel in less than 120km's tonight

[atari4x4]

pull the fucking error codes from the fucking ECU for fuck sake

[monley]

atari4x4 wrote:

pull the fucking error codes from the fucking ECU for fuck sake

It only started doing it today, so haven't really had a chance , plus i'm still trying to find the little plug thing

[atari4x4]

monley wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

pull the fucking error codes from the fucking ECU for fuck sake

plus i'm still trying to find the little plug thing

i bet you say they to all the ladies, moag even made a pretty picture

[monley]

atari4x4 wrote:

monley wrote:

atari4x4 wrote:

pull the fucking error codes from the fucking ECU for fuck sake

plus i'm still trying to find the little plug thing

i bet you say they to all the ladies, moag even made a pretty picture

His picture was for non-vvt. I think the plugs are in different spot's, cus i looked a while ago for it, but had no luck using his picture.

[atari4x4]

the plug is smallish & will be accessible.... it's only a small car, checked the engine bay? will have a squarish rubber dust/water cover over it.

[alien]

not much help to you, but my local mechanic has a computery thingy that plugs in and reads error codes and can clear them... surely theres some place near you that can do the same?

[31zook]

Mine is up under me dash near the steering colum.

[Rhinoman]

jimny_timmy wrote:

Did you count the flashes?

I don't think that works on a 2009 which will, most likely, be EOBD compatible - the flashing means a serious failure that could lead to damage to the catalytic converter.

[zukenutter]

31zook wrote:

Mine is up under me dash near the steering colum.

Has been a while but I'm pretty sure that's where I found mine. I bought an ebay OBDII reader a while back for the black Jim. Didn't work but did work on the silver Jim.

[monley]

The car is booked in on Monday to get looked at. Suzuki said if the engine light start's flashing and doesn't stop. Pull over and get the car towed home, cus some thing is about to let go

[jimny_timmy]

monley wrote:

The car is booked in on Monday to get looked at. Suzuki said if the engine light start's flashing and doesn't stop. Pull over and get the car towed home, cus some thing is about to let go

[Rhinoman]

monley wrote:

The car is booked in on Monday to get looked at. Suzuki said if the engine light start's flashing and doesn't stop. Pull over and get the car towed home, cus some thing is about to let go

The engine isn't going to explode or anything like that, the flashing light is really an EOBD/OBD2 requirement to stop you from polluting the planet. You shouldn't run it like that though because when the vehicle goes into fail safe mode or limp mode it tends to run quite rich - if it is run like that for very long the cat will be ruined and washing of the bores could cause dilution of the oil and accelerated engine wear.

[bakerboy]

If it has OBD2 port give me a shout and ill grab my cheapo reader off my mate and you can have a crack at doing it yourself, should have said before you came and got your light and i would of had it ready for you

[steak_knife]

This is some of the bollix I don't miss........

[Mike57]

The Jimny's are all OBD-I and not OBD-II. I went through this a while back and got the pin outs from Suzuki as well for my 2009 model. So if you are looking for a reader use the older OBD model as the OBD-II may not work.

[10WEr]

Hey sorry to gate crash your thread, but whilst on te topic of fault codes, does anyone know what number '18' is,
1 solid flash followed by 8 quick flashes!!!

2001 jimny with m13a motor.