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Omega General Help / Re: Finally got my CEL to stay on

« on: 21 July 2011, 00:50:58 »

Yeah I checked the owners manual. According to it that's the rear air suspension leveling light.

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Omega General Help / Re: Finally got my CEL to stay on

« on: 20 July 2011, 19:41:22 »

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Omega General Help / Re: Finally got my CEL to stay on

« on: 20 July 2011, 19:03:13 »

   

...and leveling light?

I presume we 're talking about hid lights "headlight field of vision" error we get on uk cars...?  :-/

Leveling as in the rear air suspension. I'm assuming that's what it is anyway. I hear the compressor kick on everytime i turn it on. I don't really pay a whole lot of attention to the rear but i'm assuming it still goes up.

It's a light that says Leveling and it keeps flashing it's on the top of the dashboard in between the oil pressure gauge and the voltage gauge on the right end of the dashboard

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Omega General Help / Re: Finally got my CEL to stay on

« on: 19 July 2011, 23:54:26 »

Is the behaviour of the CEL / check engine light the same on Federal cars as it is on European cars?

I seem to recall reading somewhere about how OBD was introduced in America to act as a self test of emissions. Is it possible that the CEL will stay illuminated on a Catera until it is reset by an authorised dealer?

Yeah it was originally made for emission purposes but now a days it seems to cover an array of issues not related to emissions. Anyway I got the light to turn off and I drove around in what i'm 100% positive would cause the sport light and check engine lights to come on and the car acted like a total champ and no CEL or S light!. yaaaaaayy!!!!

I now have a fully working Catera Sport. Now I only need to figure out what the deal is with the leveling light.

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Omega General Help / Re: Finally got my CEL to stay on

« on: 19 July 2011, 22:12:13 »

.....
It's actually hot enough where i live to justify dancing around the car a la nude at midnight just to try and stay cool so I might have to try that.  .....

You're just showing off! It's either rained or pi$$ed it down here for the past few days! 

To be honest i could almost kiss Chris for pointing me to that thread because I have been stumped for a long time with this issue and I will be sooo happy if it's something that simple.

Have you seen what Chris looks like??

(lakes videos, dark T shirt with twin white stripes across it  )

Maybe we can just settle for a thanks but in either case if this fixed my issue i'll be happy as a dog inside a kennel full of bitches in heat.

BTW I wish we got some rain to cool down the place here. I'm pretty sure we're going to be hitting 100+ degrees for the next 2 weeks. Roughly about 38-40 Celsius. Not to mention it was 80% humidity yesterday.

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Omega General Help / Re: Finally got my CEL to stay on

« on: 19 July 2011, 21:40:26 »

There are only 2 ways to "reset the CEL" as you call it

1. Remove the fault then

a) on some faults the light goes away immediately
b) on some faults it takes 20 or so "clean" starts to put the light out

2. Use a code reader to actively reset the system

Disconnecting the battery will have exactly the same effect as dancing around the car naked, 4 times in an anticlockwise direction, at 3 minutes past midnight.... but if you wish to try either solution ..... 

It's actually hot enough where i live to justify dancing around the car a la nude at midnight just to try and stay cool so I might have to try that. I guess i'll just have to wait.

I know i've done some driving so far and have shut the car off maybe 3 or 4  times and restarted it. 20 sounds a little steep but i'm pretty sure I can do it if i run some errands and cruise for a little bit.

To be honest i could almost kiss Chris for pointing me to that thread because I have been stumped for a long time with this issue and I will be sooo happy if it's something that simple.

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Omega General Help / Re: Finally got my CEL to stay on

« on: 19 July 2011, 21:27:04 »

It was those codes up top. I found a plug that wasn't hooked up so I hooked it up. Does the CEL automatically shut off or can you erase the codes without a code reader to see if the come back up?


EDIT: BTW this is the fastest response time i've ever had in this site thanks!. I may not be phrasing things correctly. Basically i'm trying to reset the CEL to see if the codes come back up now that I hooked the connection back up.

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Omega General Help / Re: Finally got my CEL to stay on

« on: 19 July 2011, 21:21:04 »

..... I'm assuming if i pull the hot cable off the battery for a few it should reset correct?

No. And you should remove the negative from your battery first whenever you disconnect a battery. 

Ok. so i'll disconnect the negative for what like 20 minutes?

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Omega General Help / Re: Finally got my CEL to stay on

« on: 19 July 2011, 21:16:52 »

So I drove it around in what i'm positive would've caused the light to come on and it didn't. However the check engine light is still on. I'm assuming if i pull the hot cable off the battery for a few it should reset correct?

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Omega General Help / Re: Finally got my CEL to stay on

« on: 19 July 2011, 20:30:11 »

strangely enough, the connection on the left side if you're looking at the car from front to back wasn't twist locked, it was sitting on it but not locked in. I'm going to take the car for a spin and see what happens.

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Omega General Help / Finally got my CEL to stay on

« on: 17 July 2011, 18:43:16 »

It came up with these codes.

P zero743 Torque converter clutch circuit (electrical)

P zero 748 Pressure control solenoid (electrical)

Any ideas or advice?

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Omega General Help / Re: Checking solenoids on auto box

« on: 25 March 2011, 18:13:39 »

Have you noticed your sport light flashing? or any dash lights? I checked out your other post and it seems like you still get some shifting. I'm stuck in a similar issue even after replacing the trans. Mine seems to be an electrical issue which I haven't been able to pinpoint. However mine goes into safe mode which doesn't shift from 3rd and you mention that your car does shift.

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Omega General Help / Re: Sensors,relays, or fuses for tranny

« on: 02 April 2011, 22:21:33 »

So I got under the car and had no room to maneuver around to remove the switch, It's the 3.0 motor and I had room to get 1-2 fingers in between the part and the body. The outside looked grimy. Is there any correlation between the outside grime and inside?

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Omega General Help / Re: Sensors,relays, or fuses for tranny

« on: 02 April 2011, 17:58:45 »

Anyone?

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Omega General Help / Re: Sensors,relays, or fuses for tranny

« on: 01 April 2011, 21:14:52 »

So is it possible to check it with a multimeter through the connector by the airbox? What is it that I'm looking for? 4ohms is what I saw. Is that while the car is in park? Reverse? Neutral? Drive? I'm assuming it should be on.

I read that a dirty selector switch can cause flickering on the lights next to the shifter. I noticed some flickering briefly once a few months back but I've had no flickering since.

I also saw a picture of a solenoid from what seemed to be under the cover for the shifter. What's the purpose of the solenoid and could it have any issues that would cause the sport light/limp mode coming on.