Code reading

[Terbs]

Hi all,
Can the 'paperclip or pedal trick' test be done on other cars. I refer to a Volkswagon Polo automatic. Not mine I hasten to add!!!. Its a friend of the wife's....she has told her to bring it here for me ( ) to have a look at. In her words.....'There has been a light on, on the dashboard, and now its starting flashing and I think it started to chug a bit today'.
I assume its the Engine Management, but I do not know anything about Polo's. (Nor anything else for that matter )
Can anyone point me in the right direction. 
My 'unseen' diagnosis is to get a code reader on it

Tony

[doz]

Need something like vcds to decode. I have a fully licensed copy but you may be to far away

[Terbs]

Thanks for the offer, doz, but yeah...its a bit too far. I'll get her to take it to my son in laws garage, they have got the readers
Just did not know if other cars liked having a paperclip shoved in 'em

[Steve B]

Hi all,
Can the 'paperclip or pedal trick' test be done on other cars. I refer to a Volkswagon Polo automatic. Not mine I hasten to add!!!. Its a friend of the wife's....she has told her to bring it here for me ( ) to have a look at. In her words.....'There has been a light on, on the dashboard, and now its starting flashing and I think it started to chug a bit today'.
I assume its the Engine Management, but I do not know anything about Polo's. (Nor anything else for that matter )
Can anyone point me in the right direction. 
My 'unseen' diagnosis is to get a code reader on it

Tony

does the light look like a petrol station pump 

[Terbs]

I don't know, mate. She is due here any moment so I will soon see
Is there something relevent about that......besides wanting juice

[the alarming man]

or water in the screen washers

[Terbs]

or water in the screen washers

What !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[the alarming man]

well the skoda and the golf i had as a loaner both told you when the screen wash was low!!!

[tunnie]

well the skoda and the golf i had as a loaner both told you when the screen wash was low!!!

Your Omega tells you via the MID

[tunnie]

Hi all,
Can the 'paperclip or pedal trick' test be done on other cars. I refer to a Volkswagon Polo automatic. Not mine I hasten to add!!!. Its a friend of the wife's....she has told her to bring it here for me ( ) to have a look at. In her words.....'There has been a light on, on the dashboard, and now its starting flashing and I think it started to chug a bit today'.
I assume its the Engine Management, but I do not know anything about Polo's. (Nor anything else for that matter )
Can anyone point me in the right direction. 
My 'unseen' diagnosis is to get a code reader on it

Tony

does the light look like a petrol station pump 

Yup sounds like fuel light to me

[the alarming man]

well the skoda and the golf i had as a loaner both told you when the screen wash was low!!!

Your Omega tells you via the MID

i never let mine get that low 

[Terbs]

The light that is on is the light that says 'check' underneath it. It is yellow with a electrical flash in it
The engine sounds as sweet as a nut.

[the alarming man]

bulb out ?

[Terbs]

I think its Emissions....she found her handbook, and that light refers to Engine Emissions. Does not mention anything else Good enough for me

[Terbs]

Aha....just gleaned from her it flashed this morning whilst doing what sounds like a misfire, then went back to solid light. The handbook says 'chance of damaging cat, light flashes'
Not misfired since, and light has remained on.
I think the problem is solved...Lambda, cat or something on that line