Engine management light staying on

[Shutler]

My engine management light is on and the vee sounds like a tractor, any ideas on what it is? Coils?

Any advice appreciated.

 

[MrBlueSky]

Certainly sounds like a coil pack gone. Disconnect one plug lead at a time with the engine running and that should tell you which one.

 

[daver]

Invest in a cheap fault code reader, it will tell you which one. Ignition coil fault codes start P030x - with the last digit being the cylinder. It's a code you will soon remember without needing to look it up

 

[Shutler]

Thanks guys :approve:

Had the vee 8 years and this is the first time I've had any trouble with coils, new to that club

Wheres the best place for buying the coils?

 

[SJ]

I've used the Peugeot ones for over 10yrs and never had one go (as yet), had a few replaced by Renault when car was under warranty and even those have long since died. Plus I used to work in Hull just near pug dealer and we have one fairly near to home. I'm sure some more knowledgeable person will be along to say pug and Reno ones same but they do appear beefier and I know from running an avantime for many happy years that quite a few swore by pug coils as it was thought it was the heat build up that killed them.
Definitely invest in cheap code reader makes life much easier.
If you can get some and are handy with soldering iron trophy coils are best solution.

 

[Kett]

Trophy coils are the way I went - although replacing a coil is very straightforward - the thought of changing a coil of the side of a motorway in the driving rain was unpalatable.