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Old 08-13-2004, 05:41 AM
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This evening as I was pulling away from a stoplight, my box gave a light hesitated kick, and then my check engine, Trac Off, and VSC lights all came on at the same time and won't go off...From what I can tell, it's not driving any differently yet...


Has anyone ever had this happen to them??? If so what was the problem, and did the dealership honor the warranty to fix it??? Could this be a sensor failure???

Just to give a background on my box, it's a four month old Hot Lava with about 3500 miles, no mods under the hood at all, and just got serviced for it's first oil change two weeks ago...

Any ideas as to what it could be???

Thanks!!!

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Old 08-13-2004, 01:21 PM
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do you have a intake in ur car that you slapped on recently?
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Old 08-13-2004, 02:50 PM
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Is your box a manual? if so, you just killed the clutch, and thats why the lights came on. Mine did the same thing one time when I killed mine....
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Check the xB forum, a guy said his bad ECU made that same thing happen.
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My box is an auto, bone stock Lava with only cosmetic mods so far...

I took it to the dealership, and heres what they said...Upon setting it up on the diagnostic, they found my Knock sensor to be bad...The tech said that it basically controls my valve timing, and can effect the throttle as well...The reason the other lights went on aside from the check engine light was just a safety thing the ECU does to protect something or other, I didn't understand the whole explanation...Basically my box is undrivable...

Not to worry though, the esnsor is on order and it will arrive tomorrow...Once installed, I'm good as new...In the meantime I'm set up with a rental for the weekend, and saved my box 1,000 miles getting to drive the rental up North instead of it... :D

Oh yeah I almost forgot...They said this problem has turned up in quite a few boxes lately at their dealership...Just to give you guys a heads up...

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