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Limp mode and engine management light


matth76

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Hi

 

A few weeks ago my engine management light came on (was a yellow colour) but the car drove fine. Went to a garage who read the code and it was p2135 which is "Incorrect electric voltage to throttle position sensor". The garage also told me they thought my exhaust backbox sounded as though it was blowing slightly. Anyway the cleared the fault and for the last month it has been fine.

 

Today I parked in a car park and when I got back and started it the engine management light was back on (again a yellow colour) and this time the light saying the traction control was off and the symbol to the right with car "skid" marks. The car would hardly rev and not go much more than 30mph and up hill it would crawl along much slower. Occasionally it would rev very high. I assume this must be what is called "limp mode". Is this correct? When I got to some traffic lights I turned the engine off and on again the traction control lights had gone out and the car would rev and drive normally again, however the engine management light was still on.

 

Has all this to do with the initial fault I experienced a few weeks ago? Is it ok to drive my car (it is driving ok now since turning it off and on although the light is on)? Oil and water temps absolutely normal.

 

Thanks for any help and info.

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Sounds like it has either a throttle pedal and throttle butterfly voltage supply problem. We have had this problem on our mule 350Z JDM car , tried a throttle switch and a butterfly without any luck. We managed to trace the fault to a broken wire in the loom pretty simple job to re wire.

 

any questions please feel free to ask away.

 

 

Mark

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Thanks Mark.

 

Looks like I'm going to have to get my local specialist to isolate the problem. Car is only just 4 yrs old so this is all really surprising on such a newish car.

 

Does anyone have the process of clearing the light manually (without a code reader) - something that I can do myself without any tools?

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This was from Abbey , replied last night from my fathers computer

 

Sounds like it has either a throttle pedal and throttle butterfly voltage supply problem. We have had this problem on our mule 350Z JDM car , tried a throttle switch and a butterfly without any luck. We managed to trace the fault to a broken wire in the loom pretty simple job to re wire.

 

any questions please feel free to ask away.

 

 

Mark

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Thanks Mark.

 

 

Does anyone have the process of clearing the light manually (without a code reader) - something that I can do myself without any tools?

 

 

You will find it in the Guides section under ECU reset. ;)

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Cheers guys for your help. Will hopefully have it booked in to GT Art when they can get a response from Nissan on the parts required and poss costs. So far touch wood car has been fine (still drives very quickly), drives fine just has engine management light staying on (same yellow colour). Only thing that seems to be present (and has been the case since the light came on last time is the exhaust is very slightly louder, like it is blowing as suggested. Sounds a bit better/sportier than normal to be honest but was wondering if this could have any affect on what has happened - ie if an exhaust system is blowing slightly could it cause a fault like this?

 

I assume it's fine to drive the car normally in the mean time?

 

Thanks for the help so far.

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I have had this problem on numerous occassions, like you said turn the car off and on and it goes away. Reset the ECU and it goes away.

 

But envitiably it comes back! and the last time it did not go away... it turned out to be a Control Unit, the 350z has number of these to control the electronics from Door mirrors to traction control.

 

Dan from Advance Motorsport fixed mine - give him a shout let him know Sonney advised you call him with Grey 350z.(hes got my car at the moment) 01327 857 577

 

Good Luck :thumbs:

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  • 2 weeks later...
Is there a standard ODB-II port anywhere? I have a code reader that I used to use with mu old Subaru and I'd hate it to be redundant now.

 

yes just below the steering wheel to the right hand side, near where the bonnet release and headlight washer button are.

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