engine management light

[jap_star]

I have just recently brought a honda civic coupe vti with the legendary b16. Just recently had a new head gasket and had the head re skimmed but the engine light stills comes on and off? help please.

[Technonotice]

could be a variety of sensors/other problems etc, can you be more specific?

Edited by Technonotice on Tuesday 16th September 19:04

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as im driving the light will turn on,and if i switch off my engine it will go off. but it will come on again after a while, ive only had the car for 2 weeks and just started doing it after i sorted out the head gasket?

[Technonotice]

Maybe reset the ecu. Remove the battery connection for a few hours and when you re-connect it the ecu should have reset and you may solve the problem

Also has the car got a de-cat exhaust? there would have been a sensor when the cat was in place. You may need a dummy sensor.

If your worried, take it to a decent garage where they can read the fault code from the ecu and diagnose the problem much more quickly than me guessing!. lol

[jap_star]

the car has not been modified no decat, the car is booked in a garage on thursday so should find out then fingers crossed. thanks for your help mate.

[Holst]

Can you read the code on these cars yourself?

On my car there is a blue plug under the dash that can be shorted, when you turn the ignition the light will flash and tell you the code.

If you look on a more civic cpecific forum you should be able to find out the code reading procedure and a list of what the codes mean.

Its probably just a sensor thats failed and if it is it should be an easy fix.