Oh dear...
Came to start the car this morning. It coughed and spluttered so I turned the key back then tried again. The car cracked into life however the Engine check light came on. Bugger...
So I called Honda Assistance as I still have some extended warranty left and the AA guy they sent plugged his diagnostics in and it threw a fault for the cam sensor. He advised to take it to the dealer and have it looked at, but before I could stop him he removed the fault from the ECU!
I called my dealer, who is Pennine Honda 30+ miles away in Rochdale, and they told me they could look at it but without the fault showing, the couldn't use their own diagnostics to take a more detailed look at it.
I've driven it to work today, as I needed some fuel and everything seems fine, but even though the engine light is now unlit the problem is still there. I was advised it might be an intermittent fault or just carbon build up.
The only thing I found untoward under the bonnet is that the throttle cable had been loose from the stand-off it clips to above the cam cover. I noticed when I started the car my fuel light had come on. It was close to coming on last night but usually after leaving it like that it comes on the way to work, it was one notch before the red notch. Maybe the loose cable has flooded the engine a bit over night and thus caused poor first start and thrown this error in the process.
It appears to work as it normally would, starts and drives OK, VTEC (y0!) is working as it should. My problem is that if the fault doesn't pop back up on the ECU, Honda might not get their tools out and look at it properly. So if they do that and the fault comes back it'll cost me more in fuel getting there and back.
I'm worried about driving the car, although both Honda and AA didn't really seem to think it was a big deal. Ideally I need it to throw up this fault so I can get piece of mind. There is a dealer local to me, maybe I can get them to plug it in and have a fiddle but warranty wise I have to use Pennine which is a bummer.
Anyone suffer the same or can advise if driving the car is OK etc? Is it a part I can access myself and check for carbon build-up?
I always seem to get the car problems My FPOS cost me as much as I paid for it over 3 years from 15000 miles!
Came to start the car this morning. It coughed and spluttered so I turned the key back then tried again. The car cracked into life however the Engine check light came on. Bugger...
So I called Honda Assistance as I still have some extended warranty left and the AA guy they sent plugged his diagnostics in and it threw a fault for the cam sensor. He advised to take it to the dealer and have it looked at, but before I could stop him he removed the fault from the ECU!
I called my dealer, who is Pennine Honda 30+ miles away in Rochdale, and they told me they could look at it but without the fault showing, the couldn't use their own diagnostics to take a more detailed look at it.
I've driven it to work today, as I needed some fuel and everything seems fine, but even though the engine light is now unlit the problem is still there. I was advised it might be an intermittent fault or just carbon build up.
The only thing I found untoward under the bonnet is that the throttle cable had been loose from the stand-off it clips to above the cam cover. I noticed when I started the car my fuel light had come on. It was close to coming on last night but usually after leaving it like that it comes on the way to work, it was one notch before the red notch. Maybe the loose cable has flooded the engine a bit over night and thus caused poor first start and thrown this error in the process.
It appears to work as it normally would, starts and drives OK, VTEC (y0!) is working as it should. My problem is that if the fault doesn't pop back up on the ECU, Honda might not get their tools out and look at it properly. So if they do that and the fault comes back it'll cost me more in fuel getting there and back.
I'm worried about driving the car, although both Honda and AA didn't really seem to think it was a big deal. Ideally I need it to throw up this fault so I can get piece of mind. There is a dealer local to me, maybe I can get them to plug it in and have a fiddle but warranty wise I have to use Pennine which is a bummer.
Anyone suffer the same or can advise if driving the car is OK etc? Is it a part I can access myself and check for carbon build-up?
I always seem to get the car problems My FPOS cost me as much as I paid for it over 3 years from 15000 miles!