Corsa warning light

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[TW]Fox

[TW]Fox

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Wow loads of car luck today!

Gfs 05 Corsa 1.3 CTDi has illuminated a warning light. It is a car with a spanner in it but is NOT a service indicator. I am guessing this is a Vauxhall specific light, anyone here had this?

The manual says Take the car to a dealer. I suspect its a faulty sensor or similar but is it safe to continue to use the car as obviuously everywhere is shut?

Thankls guys.
 
Yes it'll be fine, keep driving it until you can get to a garage. Normally lights like this are nothing really important. If you see oil everywhere this is also normal and the car is perfectly safe to use.
 
I had the displeasure of a diesel corsa for a year.

I would be more worried if the spanner light was not illuminated, well known 'issue' on Corsas and all the garage will do is check the ECU and reset the light !
 
I initially thought you were being serious when you said "loads of car luck" as if there was a glimmer of hope that the corsa was broken :p
 
Engine management then, could be anything...

Press brake and throtle to the floor, turn key till the dash comes on (dont start the car), keep the pedals pressed to the floor, the light should start flashing after a few seconds.

Count the flashes, note them down! Will give you four numbers that can be looked at to find the problem. It will flash 10 times for a 0 and the rest are just counted by how many times it flashes. There will be a second or two pause between the flashes.

flash x 10, pause, flash x3, pause, flash x3, pause, flash x 5... for example would be 0335 :)

Its hard to explain what i mean... lol
 
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Janesy B said:
ACTUALLY I think when one light comes on you should only take it to a garage once ALL lights have been illuminated.
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Stop being a ****, its nearly 8pm, the dealer is closed and she is 35 miles from home. Trying to find out whether its likely to be indicating a serious fault therefore it needs recovery or if its just a sensor and safe to drive home.

I did not at any point ask if it can simply be ignored for ever.
 
Best course of action, sell corsa to idiot on autotrader (perfect spec with that engine), buy decent car, profit. You are way too intelligent to let your loved one drive around in that POS tbh.

:D
 
if the manual says take it to a dealer it could be a host of serious issues which you wont know until you can diagnose the problem, i wouldnt move it unless i knew teh car better

could be a dead lambda or no oil pressure for all we know

and, corsa, wtf?!
 
monkey_boy said:
Are you being serious?

OP hasn't said that the car has stopped. Get her to check the standard things. I've known of friends corsa's that burn a lot of oil on long journeys. Get her to check the oil and coolant and then just get her to drive home so it can be looked at in the morning.
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Nice ninja edit mate ;)
 
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