When you guys accidentaly kill the car like letting off the clutch on accident while in gear or not giving enough gas on a cold morning and it kills, does your SES light come on when you restart it and stay on? Mine did this morning when pulling out of the driveway, i accidentaly killed it by not giving enough gas for my cold start and low vacummed 272'd car. Just wondering if your SES pops up as well when you kill it..I just reset it, does anyone know what the code and description is for when this happens?? haha

 

just to make sure, go to autozone and borrow their obd scanner(is that the name?) for free and they will pull out the code for you.

 

nah im positive man...hehe, i was just curious...its some code for killing the engine, but i cant remember what it was...ive seen it before, the only other code ive ever had was Idle system too high..

 

What condition triggers the CEL when you kill the motor like that?

 

....my wife triggered a CEL when I was teaching her to drive stick shift ....same conditions you describe, did not pull the code...just did a battery disconect and all was fine..

 

yeah , its just my stupidity...haha..but it just got me curious as of what condition on the motor the ECU senses that it feels it needs to trigger the SES light.

 

If I would guess it would be a P0300....

 

My bet's on crank angle sensor or camshaft angle ...whatever the heck that is. I did the exact same thing and when i got it checked it was one of those. reset it and never came back.

 

yeah, it doesnt ever come back, just trying to gain some knowledge on why a kill of engine may trigger the light.....knowledge is power....heh