Omega Owners Forum
Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: VR4Dave on 16 November 2010, 16:15:36
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Hi all, can anyone tell me why the light may have come on and stayed on?
Done pedal trick and have codes 430 and 420.
Cheers in advance.
Dave.
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This may well answer your question :)
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1253462747
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Have you recently fueled up at a different petrol station than usual?
It is also possible for fuel quality to vary at the same petrol station - supermarket fuel stations are notorious for this.
When this happened on my car the advice on this forum was to fill up with decent fuel and/or fuel additive, then give it the old 'Italian tune up'! ::), also to fill up with decent fuel every 3-4 tankfuls after that.
My EML light has been on a couple of times since, usually after filling up at Tesco, but it usually goes out after a while.
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DJAC, I think you are on to something, a few weeks back my wife's meriva started running bloody awful and the emissions light came on and it had a misfire code. It was due a service anyway so I changed plugs. filters oil etc disconected battery to clear codes and it solved the problem.
When I was grilling her about whether she'd put diesel in it, she did say she'd filled up at safeway as tesco was busy, I thought nothing of this.....
On sunday I filled up at safeway as shell garage was busy :-[
seems a bit of a coincidence and I wonder how many other drivers have had similar problems and spent a fortune getting their cars "fixed"
Will give it a tank full of shells finest tomorrow.
Dave.
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Just as a sidenote, disconnecting the battery does not clear fault codes. ;)
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I've not checked if codes are still there on the meriva, i disconected battery to get rid of the light.