[TW]Fox;27124100 said:
Your car has illuminated a light telling you that there is some sort of engine fault. You don't yet know what this fault is, so your idea is just to... keep driving the car? Really?
This made me chuckle.
Well the folks over at ClubPolo and Pistonheads (including a VAG techie) said that it would "probably" be fine to drive if there are no noticeable symptoms, because it almost certainly means that it is just a sensor.
To be perfectly honest Fox, I couldn't care less at the moment... OBD reader is coming tomorrow so I'll soon know where the problem lies, and in the mean time, I'll continue to drive it unless it sounds or feels like it is about to blow up.
I am pretty sure that it is just the post-cat lambda anyway. It makes sense because:
A.) they tend to go after about 10 years, it has been 12.
B.) there are no noticable symptoms whatsoever
C.) the cable for the sensor is in terrible condition and looks like it got pinched in the accident, with the insulation shredded and some of the wire strands severed
If it does blow up or break irreversibly, then the risk of driving it didn't pay off, and I'll look like a
****, and thats that.