Mysterious light
Sept 20, 2017 15:10:51 GMT
Post by Humph on Sept 20, 2017 15:10:51 GMT
No, nothing supernatural, or at least, I hope not !
The engine management light came on in my wife's Qashqai the other day. Bit of a puzzle as it seems to be driving ok. However, I took it into our local indie to check it out, and he was totally flummoxed by it. Because, the fault code suggests a problem with the gear position sensor / stop start system. The former being the gizmo that shows which gear you're in on an auto, and the latter being self explanatory. As her car isn't fitted with stop/start and is a manual...well, you can see why he was scratching his head.
He's contacted Nissan technical and they can't shed any light ( sorry about that ) on it either other than "maybe it needs a software update" ( oh joy )
So, he's given me the car back ( no charge bless him ) but with the wee orange light still on.
I've been googling around for a few minutes and it turns out that this is a known fault among Qashqaistas. Seems that it's an early sign of a shonky battery and that replacing it should make everything better. Given that her car is 9 years old now, and still on its original battery, it's got to be worth a try hasn't it, before I go paying the Nissan dealer squillions to plug it into whatever they plug it into, to do whatever the pluggy inny thingy does?
You'd think anyway, wouldn't you?
The engine management light came on in my wife's Qashqai the other day. Bit of a puzzle as it seems to be driving ok. However, I took it into our local indie to check it out, and he was totally flummoxed by it. Because, the fault code suggests a problem with the gear position sensor / stop start system. The former being the gizmo that shows which gear you're in on an auto, and the latter being self explanatory. As her car isn't fitted with stop/start and is a manual...well, you can see why he was scratching his head.
He's contacted Nissan technical and they can't shed any light ( sorry about that ) on it either other than "maybe it needs a software update" ( oh joy )
So, he's given me the car back ( no charge bless him ) but with the wee orange light still on.
I've been googling around for a few minutes and it turns out that this is a known fault among Qashqaistas. Seems that it's an early sign of a shonky battery and that replacing it should make everything better. Given that her car is 9 years old now, and still on its original battery, it's got to be worth a try hasn't it, before I go paying the Nissan dealer squillions to plug it into whatever they plug it into, to do whatever the pluggy inny thingy does?
You'd think anyway, wouldn't you?
