V Reg Is200. Car Cut Out, Engine Management Light On And The Traction

[Onevoice]

Good morning.

I have a V reg IS200 that started cutting out. When it does the enginemanagement light comes on and the traction control light flashes every 6 seconds. After a few seconds it will start and run ok with the warning lights on then after a couple of stop starts the lights go out and it returns to normal until the next time. It has done it 6 / 7 times in the last 2 / 3 weeks.

I have had it in at the garage and it brough up an error code. Mechanic cleaed it but it has since come back.

Any advice would be great

[rig-pig]

what was the code ???

[steve2006]

Welcome to the LOC.

As Rig Pig asks what code did your mechanic find? Also why did he clear it without investigating the cause 1st?

[Unitee]

The exact same thing keeps happening to me. Mine too is a Vreg IS200. Also, maybe a separate issue, but the Battery seems very weak and is quite drained when I try and restart.

Any suggestions?

[phunt]

Hmmm ive just logged into the site to ask if anyone could help with a problem i have with my car and i found this post and im having the same issues. I don't know if the two things are related but yesterday on the way home from work i noticed the heater took longer than usual to heat up but eventually it did. Then today i was drving up the ramp of a multi story car park and i got slight wheel spin, almost instantly my engine management light came on and my traction light started flashing. As i pulled into the parking space i noticed a slight burning smell but nothing major. About an hour later i drove home , the light was still on and traction still flashing, then i noticed my heater wasnt getting hot again and then i noticed my temp gauge had risen to the max level but i had no temp warning light then about a minute later the temp gauge dropped right down to minimum. As i pulled up at home the car idle was quite rough and the was quite a bit of smoke comeing from the engine. It was too dark to tell where the smoke was coming from so im going to have a proper look tomorrow. Just wondered if any of you guys had found out what the problem was and did you solve it? Cheers.

[gazr24]

PHUT, your engine is overheating, if the temperature gauge says its cold then u have no water in your rad.

there may be a small hole in your rad, check and fill the water level. IF your car runs ok then CHECK WATER IN RAD DAILY. if it dont run very well then you may of cooked some of the coils. i had same problem with mine, same lights flashing. let me know how u get on. cheers

[mikey's IS]

Good morning.

I have a V reg IS200 that started cutting out. When it does the enginemanagement light comes on and the traction control light flashes every 6 seconds. After a few seconds it will start and run ok with the warning lights on then after a couple of stop starts the lights go out and it returns to normal until the next time. It has done it 6 / 7 times in the last 2 / 3 weeks.

I have had it in at the garage and it brough up an error code. Mechanic cleaed it but it has since come back.

Any advice would be great

Might be coil pack/s on the way out had this a few times

[Unitee]

Well problem has been identified and cured. Apparently it was a 'loose throttle wire'. This was however after having it on the machine for about 3-4 times. I was billed for 2 hrs on the machine - thought this was all part of the 'diagnosis'. What was a real concern was, call me oldfashioned if you like but from the moment I mentioned cutting out and Battery dying, shouldn't an electrical trace have been done. I'm no mechanic but isn't that rudimentary mechanics that trainees go through? Have your throttlke wiring checked out as that may well be the cause as opposed to coil packs/ECU.

Best of luck.

[fjcfarrar]

Unitee, you shouldn't be so hard on your repairer. A loose connection means the fault is sometimes there: sometimes not - so will not show up on any test until it chooses to happen. This means the majority of the time is spent looking for a fault while it doesn't exist. Intermittent faults are the bane of anybody trying to repair anything.