thanks for the responses guys... here's what happened:

took to the dealer and told em what was goin on. they tell me to leave it for a couple of hours so they can look at it. when i first drop it off... two mechanics come and open the hood. they look in the engine bay for about 35 seconds, then one mechanic says... 'no mods, go ahead and pull the code.'

they take it into the garage, and i leave with my friends. when i go to pickup the car, they told me the 'ecu threw a false code' and they just reset it. then they re-ran a diagnostic, and there were no errors.

looks like everything was ok. i dunno why the ecu would do that though. (maybe the TT?)

 

Did they charge the standard $74 to reset it?? That's what they are telling me it costs...

 

Well that's great, you had NO IDEA WHAT THE ERROR WAS. Next time goto Autozone or some place like that and they will pull the code for free.

 

no.. they didn't charge me anything. I just had to leave my car with them for about 4 hrs.

Ok.. so 1 week later, i get gas at Mobile gas station, and a few hrs later, i get another CEL! wtf?!! so I double check my gascap, and it is tight.. 4 clicks or so... and the light is still on.

For some reason I have a feeling its the gas... so i just drive it as usual. When the time comes to get gas, I go to Shell... and once i filled it up, the CEL disappeared!

WEIRD. btw.. i have crappy 91 octane here in california. booo..

 

maybe the car doesnt like the smell of the mobil gas...LOL

 

just driving it back from los angeles to vegas, at 1500 miles
CEL went on...oh I stop and bought gas at 76 gas station, pump
91 octane. then after 100 miles check engine light went on.

also I check for the gas cap and its thight.....

next I will go to auto zone and see for codes.


cecile

 

same thing here, 4200 miles on the car, driving on the hway i got CE light, i can pull the code because i got OBD2 cable with laptop but first i will check the gas cap i might use 2 clicks, as i remember using shell gas station and i dont think i tight it enough well i will reset ecu and see what happens, or it might be BOV VTA issue i dont know...i let you guys know......

 

wheres the obd port

 

drivers side: under streering column.

 

thank god ohio has 93... in some places you can even get 97 at a sunoco one town over, and then in Massilon you can get 115

 

Like someone else said, go to Autozone and they can tell you exactly what it is. Probably a random misfire. My car was bone stock throwing this code at about 5k miles(gas cap was tight). Pulled the battery terminal and reset it, now have 16k and have not seen it since even with my Turbo Back. I think it has alot to do with where you get your gas, stick to name brand fuel and you should be OK. Places like AM PM and other crappy convience stores/gas stations get the ****ty stuff. 91 octane or not. Try to stick with Shell, Exxon or Sunoco.

 

hmm.. you guys think it has anything to do with this?

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sh...&highlight=ses

 

Autozone isn't doing CEL code pulling for free anymore. At least the one here in Oceanside. I tried to get it done and they said they no longer will pull codes.

I have been getting the same SES light. Drives me nuts. Last night on the freeway I heard what sounded like a possible backfire then it was on. Goes off after awhile. I just hope this stops or they figure out what they can do to make it stop. Mitsu pulled the code and said Random engine misfire...