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Ses
After months of trying, replacing (relais) and searching the cause of my code 36 (1987) I removed the bulb.
It looked like this SES light was already on for more than years, because the display became weak on this position.
Yesterday, on a dutch clubmeeting, somebody told me the car is not functioning 100% when it has a code popping up and the car is in a emergencyrun.
For me that is hard to believe, because actually it is running fine.
Can somebody tell me something about that ?
It looked like this SES light was already on for more than years, because the display became weak on this position.
Yesterday, on a dutch clubmeeting, somebody told me the car is not functioning 100% when it has a code popping up and the car is in a emergencyrun.
For me that is hard to believe, because actually it is running fine.
Can somebody tell me something about that ?
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Some codes have 'actions' associated with them so that the engine can continue to run in a 'limp' mode (your friend called it "emergency"), or protect itself. Coolant Temp Sensor Codes 14 and 15 for example, if set, the ECM will use a default value for coolant temp to allow fueling that it will run, if not at the optimum mixture. And because the ECM controls the cooling fan, and now doesn't know what the coolant temp is, will turn the fan on at all times. Several Codes have default actions associated with them. But not all of them.
Code 36 does not affect driveability, nor does it have any default actions associated with it. For Code 36 in an 87, your club member is mistaken. You can drive it with Code 36, nothing "bad" will happen, nothing is different from the way it runs without Code 36.
Code 36 does not affect driveability, nor does it have any default actions associated with it. For Code 36 in an 87, your club member is mistaken. You can drive it with Code 36, nothing "bad" will happen, nothing is different from the way it runs without Code 36.
