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Car Forum / Chevrolet / Chevrolet Malibu / August 2005Engine Light
Can your engine light come on because you didnt screw your gas cap on right? > Can your engine light come on because you didnt screw your gas cap on > right? Yes it will. The newer cars now have a gas cap light or message instead of the check engine light. If all is well it will reset itself after aprox. 50 heat cycles.  SignatureJohn "anything you say can & will be misquoted & used against you" '01 FLHR ''Red" '04 MXZ 600ho '99 XC700 BRC mem Thanks, it went off, it took 2 days but i guess thats 50 heat cycles > > Can your engine light come on because you didnt screw your gas cap on > > right? [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > '99 XC700 > BRC mem It isnt heat cycles..Its ignition cycles... Meaning everytime your PCM runs a diagnosis the you shut of the car the PCM resets then when you start it back up and the PCM reruns the diagnosis and so one...Has nothing to do with heat at all..Once it completes usually 40-60 ignition cycles without failing the code the pcm clears the light and stores the code in the history... Steve Re: Engine Light Group: alt.autos.chevrolet.malibu Date: Wed, Jul 27, 2005, 9:29pm (CDT-2) From: stare@thesun.com (Jarrett Hurd) Thanks, it went off, it took 2 days but i guess thats 50 heat cycles "Repairman" <repairman54@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:tfpFe.9317$oZ.6406@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net... "Jarrett Hurd" <stare@thesun.com> wrote in message news:DHkFe.67363$ro.61485@fed1read02... Can your engine light come on because you didnt screw your gas cap on right? Yes it will. The newer cars now have a gas cap light or message instead of the check engine light. If all is well it will reset itself after aprox. 50 heat cycles. SignatureJohn "anything you say can & will be misquoted & used against you" '01 FLHR ''Red" '04 MXZ 600ho '99 XC700 BRC mem > Can your engine light come on because you didnt screw your gas cap on > right? Yes, this exact thing happened to my '98 Malibu, I can't remember what the code read, my mechanic asked me if I had forgotten to screw on the gas cap, in fact my daughter had. "" wrote: > Can your engine light come on because you didnt screw your gas > cap on > right? There is a sensor mounted on top of the fuel pump assy., looks just like a map sensor on the later model cars that reads pressure and vacuum within the tank. |
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