SES light ON!
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SES light ON!
My SES light came on and is on steady, not flashing. I read the manual and it says it has to do with emission/gas. Would Seafoam or Marvel system cleaner get rid of this or is there anything elese I should check. This is a 2004 vette with about 30k miles on it so it is still realtively new and problem free. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by C5Aggie03
how do you read the codes?
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Thank you very much. I will look at the codes here in a little bit. My gas cap is on fine. I went ahead and put in a bottle of Sea Foam and a new full tank of 93 octane Shell gas.
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Lot's of different things could trigger the CEL light, including misfiring. Getting a handle on the codes is the way to go here.
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Originally Posted by C5Aggie03
Thank you very much. I will look at the codes here in a little bit. My gas cap is on fine. I went ahead and put in a bottle of Sea Foam and a new full tank of 93 octane Shell gas.
He posts that his SES light is on, and asks if SeaFoam will fix it. Several of us post here that the rational "next step" is to dump the DTC data, and we even post where to find the instructions. What does this person do ???? Doesn't listen to us, dumps in a bottle of SeaFoam and says THEN they'll check for codes ..... really smart ... why waste our time on this forum if you're gonna ask for advice and then IGNORE it.
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I looked at the code and it was an emission problem probably due to bad gas most likely. The sea foam is a good way to clean up a small problem like this, it did. I graduated from Texas A&M 2 years ago with 2 engineering degrees and bought my vette at 23 so your remarks make you look foolish. Thanks for the help guys and hopefully the 50 story building that I helped design doesn't collapse since I am obviously incompetent.......
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Good that you got it fixed. Nice when it works out to be an easy repair.
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Originally Posted by BlackZ06
Based on his handle, this is a college student at a fairly well respected school. If this individual is indicative of today's students, this country is in trouble.
He posts that his SES light is on, and asks if SeaFoam will fix it. Several of us post here that the rational "next step" is to dump the DTC data, and we even post where to find the instructions. What does this person do ???? Doesn't listen to us, dumps in a bottle of SeaFoam and says THEN they'll check for codes ..... really smart ... why waste our time on this forum if you're gonna ask for advice and then IGNORE it.
He posts that his SES light is on, and asks if SeaFoam will fix it. Several of us post here that the rational "next step" is to dump the DTC data, and we even post where to find the instructions. What does this person do ???? Doesn't listen to us, dumps in a bottle of SeaFoam and says THEN they'll check for codes ..... really smart ... why waste our time on this forum if you're gonna ask for advice and then IGNORE it.
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Originally Posted by C5Aggie03
I looked at the code and it was an emission problem probably due to bad gas most likely. The sea foam is a good way to clean up a small problem like this, it did. I graduated from Texas A&M 2 years ago with 2 engineering degrees and bought my vette at 23 so your remarks make you look foolish. Thanks for the help guys and hopefully the 50 story building that I helped design doesn't collapse since I am obviously incompetent.......