Act handleing warm up
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Burning Brakes
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From: Bedford IN
Act handling warm up
I recieved this message for the first time today. Just figured that it was one of those things that the Vette's do from time to time. I drove thirty miles or so and stop at my destination. When I was finished there I got back in the car and it did it agian. I now noticed that the car wouldn't hardly idle. It kept wanting to die when I would push the clutch in to stop. I then noticed that I had used the AC the whole way because it was stupid hot out, the battery gauge was only reading like 12.2v and the coolant temp was at 207.
I turned off the AC and all of the gauges slowly went back to normal as I drove. I just recently did so modifications to the car. Headers, cat-less x-pipe, cat-back, air intake, MSD wires, 160 degree thermo. I got the car tuned one week ago and had him turn off the codes for the cat's, rear O2 sensors, air pump(because I removed it), and had the fans turned down to 180 degrees.
Now the reason I write all of this is because the car started the warming up signal at the same time that the car started running funny.
Anyone have any idea what is going on here. Thanks
I turned off the AC and all of the gauges slowly went back to normal as I drove. I just recently did so modifications to the car. Headers, cat-less x-pipe, cat-back, air intake, MSD wires, 160 degree thermo. I got the car tuned one week ago and had him turn off the codes for the cat's, rear O2 sensors, air pump(because I removed it), and had the fans turned down to 180 degrees.
Now the reason I write all of this is because the car started the warming up signal at the same time that the car started running funny.
Anyone have any idea what is going on here. Thanks
Last edited by speedsk899; Aug 6, 2007 at 06:45 PM.
Melting Slicks
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From: Nokomis FL
Had the same issue last week without doing the mods. Idle was weird for about a week, doing the same thing your having. My battery went dead Friday night. It was showing 12 volts but my cranking amps were almost zero.
My AH warming up signal went away when I cleaned the connector by the air bridge.
My AH warming up signal went away when I cleaned the connector by the air bridge.
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Burning Brakes
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From: Bedford IN
Ok so I swapped batteries and same thing. The car runs fine unless the act handling warming up comes up. If it comes up it likes to drop to like 400 RPM when I puch in the clutch to stop and bounch around. I am going to try the air bridge thing. This all started when I regretably had to drive my car down a short dirt road, anyone think the sensors for the act handling could be dirty?
Intermediate
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From: Shakopee MN
Strange.. I get the "active handling warming up" thing every now and then, seems to last around 5-10 seconds tops. I don't get any weird performance issues though, either when the notification pops up or afterwards.
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Burning Brakes
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From: Bedford IN
The performance seams like it is still there just acts a little funny at idle, and it takes a good 20mins for it to warm up, so it hardly ever gets to warm up because I am only like 10-15 min from work
Safety Car
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From: Atlanta GA
The only time I ever get the active handling message is when I am driving in 1st or second gear for a short distance, like driving out of my subdivision. Other than that, I never get it in my DIC.
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Burning Brakes
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From: Bedford IN
The problem is fixed. It was the wire going to the air temp sensor. Right at the connector the wire was broke inside the insulation and if the car was hot you could pull on it just a bit and it would stretch. Wouldn't do it when it was cold. I went down to the dealership and the guy came out and replaced the contact in the connector and cut the wire back in the parking lot free of charge. No problems now! 
Pro
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From: Bainbridge Island Wa
I can't talk to the broken wire issue but Active Handling Warming message is normal. I get it once in a while but never for more than a second or two on my 04 C5 right after I start it and drive it immediately.
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Burning Brakes
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From: Bedford IN
See I had heard that but mine would take like 30 min to warm up, I figured there was something wrong. Now it doesn't even do it any more.
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Burning Brakes
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Melting Slicks
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From: Mt. Pleasant S.C.
I used to get that a lot on my '02 if I parked with the wheels not straight or on uneven ground. Never was a problem. Oddly my '04 has never done it under the same parking conditions. The '02 had Z51 and the '04 F55, not sure if that matters.
12.2 volts is kind of low though. Might want to look at your grounds, battery, and alternator. Low voltage will make all kinds of misleading codes.
12.2 volts is kind of low though. Might want to look at your grounds, battery, and alternator. Low voltage will make all kinds of misleading codes.