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Car Forum / Subaru Cars / October 2008CEL question on a 2004 Outback Sedan LTD with 65K miles.
After about 60-70 miles my CEL goes on and the cruise control button light blinks on/off continously whether or not the button is pressed. The cruise control is also disable as far as I can tell. With a hand- held code reader I reset and all is back to normal until another 60 to 70 miles. What is wrong. The car is a 2004 Outback Sedan LTD with 65K miles. Thanks. > After about 60-70 miles my CEL goes on and the cruise control button > light blinks on/off continously whether or not the button is pressed. > The cruise control is also disable as far as I can tell. With a hand- > held code reader I reset and all is back to normal until another 60 to > 70 miles. What is wrong. The car is a 2004 Outback Sedan LTD with > 65K miles. Thanks. Well, if you have a reader, then you should be able to tell us the code. Or better yet, you can Google the code to see how to fix it! ;-) Based on what you've posted, I would say there is a problem with your cruise control. Dan D '99 Impreza 2.5 RS (son's) Central NJ USA > After about 60-70 miles my CEL goes on and the cruise control button > light blinks on/off continously whether or not the button is pressed. > The cruise control is also disable as far as I can tell. With a hand- > held code reader I reset and all is back to normal until another 60 to > 70 miles. What is wrong. The car is a 2004 Outback Sedan LTD with > 65K miles. Thanks. It happens often on this newsgroujp that someone reports that the Malfunction Indicator Lamp comes on (that's the CEL), and they ask what is wrong with my car. It is as if when one goes to the doctor and doctor says we have a confirmed diagnosis of youjr problem. And what does the patient do? He goes home and asks his friends what is wrong with him. Why didn't he ask the doctor? Why don't we report the code given to us by the scanner? That's what it is for: to tell us what is wrong with the car. If one doesn't have a scanner,then OK, go to your neighborhood store -- like AutoZone for example -- and let them read the code for you. Once you have the code, you can interpret it online by Goggling the code. Or if further help is needed, ask here, REPORTING THE CODE. Uncle Ben > After about 60-70 miles my CEL goes on and the cruise control button > light blinks on/off continously whether or not the button is pressed. > The cruise control is also disable as far as I can tell. With a hand- > held code reader Um... what was the code that was set? > I reset and all is back to normal until another 60 to 70 miles. > What is wrong. I'm an engineer, not a psychic. :-) Need more data. -- Todd H. 2001 Legacy Outback Wagon, 2.5L H-4 Chicago, Illinois USA > > After about 60-70 miles my CEL goes on and the cruise control button > > light blinks on/off continously whether or not the button is pressed. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > 2001 Legacy Outback Wagon, 2.5L H-4 > Chicago, Illinois USA Thanks to all. The code is "420". > > RaP <raj...@aol.com> writes: > > > After about 60-70 miles my CEL goes on and the cruise control button [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Thanks to all. The code is "420". You need to change the water.  SignatureLife is too short to play cheap guitars. >>>After about 60-70 miles my CEL goes on and the cruise control button >>>light blinks on/off continously whether or not the button is pressed. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Thanks to all. The code is "420". Hmmmm....I would have the codes cleared, then see if the 420 comes back. That code is associated with the oxygen sensors/catalytic converter system and, though not impossible, it seems a little early for your car to have a bad/lazy O2 sensor. And it should be setting the CEL not the cruise control light. Has this car previously had emissions or engine work or any odd problems/repairs? I dunno, seems hinky to me. Carl Signatureto reply, change ( .not) to ( .net) >>>>After about 60-70 miles my CEL goes on and the cruise control button >>>>light blinks on/off continously whether or not the button is pressed. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > bad/lazy O2 sensor. And it should be setting the CEL not the cruise > control light. Gen IV Legacys flash the cruise control light, indicating that the cruise control is disabled, when there's a fault that needs urgent attention, it's documented somewhere in the manual; probably applies to other models of the same era as well. Martin Signaturemartin<dot here>whybrow<at here>ntlworld<dot here>com >Has this car previously had emissions or engine work or any odd >problems/repairs? > > I dunno, seems hinky to me. > > Carl >> > After about 60-70 miles my CEL goes on and the cruise control button >> > light blinks on/off continously whether or not the button is pressed. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Thanks to all. The code is "420". P0420 is Catalytic converter efficiency low IIRC, and has been discussed quite a bit here lately. I'm fighting with that one myself. Have your catalytic converter looked at. If it looks reasonable, try throwing a front O2 sensor at it, and the popular wisdom is that hte issue is likely to go away. Cat replacement is what mine needs I think -- mine apparently has a hole in it (and I replaced the o2 less than a year ago). -- Todd H. 2001 Legacy Outback Wagon, 2.5L H-4 Chicago, Illinois USA >> > After about 60-70 miles my CEL goes on and the cruise control button >> > light blinks on/off continously whether or not the button is pressed. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Thanks to all. The code is "420". it's trying to tell you to pull over and stoke one up!!! ;) (Sorry, couldn't resist...) |
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