engine light on

just had my head gasket done, now my engine check light is on, but it was not on when I picked the car up,has never been on since I have owned the car,I took it to my local garage and they put it on a diagnostic machine it showed up cam sensor and pre lambada sensor changed the cam sensor, they rest the engine check light but now it has come back on, I am buying my own obd scanner so I can turn the light off, and I am waiting for the lambada sensor to arrive, could it be anything else thanks.

Hi Graham .
A friend of mine who owns a 53 plate TF had the same problem and when I put my Pscan on, it too gave the same faults . The cam sensor is pretty reliable so we cleared that fault and it just left the lambda which when it was replaced the fault code cleared . Since then the cam sensor fault has returned but it didn't put the light on . He just noticed a slight hesitation when driving the car . We put the code reader on and again the fault was cam sensor . I removed the sensor and cleaned it and it hasn't been a problem since . Just put it down to a TF thing .
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John

Graham

Consider a www.pscan.eu - considerably more expensive than a "cheap" scanner but even considerably many many times better.

James

If I could just add to James comment . I have a Pscan and it is very good and , is still being developed . The only reason against it is that it is MG/ROVER specific and obviously wouldn't be any good for other makes as far as I am aware .
John .

sworkscooper wrote: If I could just add to James comment . I have a Pscan and it is very good and , is still being developed . The only reason against it is that it is MG/ROVER specific and obviously wouldn't be any good for other makes as far as I am aware .
John .

I believe that the pscan does work with other cars but only in OBD2 mode, which is I guess what you'd expect and in that sense is as good as a basic OBD scanner. I'm pretty sure I used it on my X-type when I had it to check the MIL and it gave the same codes as my OBD scanner.

If you have an OBD2 capable F or TF (ie MEMS3 perhapst a bluetooth OBD2 scanner with the Torque App would be a cheaper and possibly more useful alternative.

thanks for the advice will see how this goes and if it buggers up I will buy the Bluetooth one

I've not heard of the Vgate maxiscan before, hopefully it'll do the job.

I will let you know when I get it, thanks:broon: