Just noticed the check engine light is on after installing my Injen Cool Air Intake. Is this normal or is it something I should be concerned about. Installed it Saturday don't know if its been on the whole time.

 

Did you disconnect the battery (few minutes) and reset the ECU after you installed it?

 

yeah twice actually I did it once yesterday to reset the ECU because i was having problem with acceleration and that fixed it but the lights on now.

 

Try Autozone to get the code read (free)?

Maybe clean the MAF and reset again?

 

hold down the trip ODO on the speedo before you turn on your car 5 bars should show on the trip counter. keep on holding it till the 5 bars count down. The CEL should be gone till you do something else to your engine.

 

well, did the maf sensor go in okay?

Only time I have heard of CEL's on the intake when it was the wrong year on the car. but the maf postion is a dead give away

 

is it possiable to put the MAF sensor on the wrong way? i dont think there is enough wire for that to be turned around.

 

MAF went on flawlessly no problem there at all.

 

never heard of that before on our cars^^^

I thought that was to reset the service soon light?

 

interesting...

 

Uh... that's the Maint Req light reset... not Check Engine Light.

 

same thing happend to me that what i did and it went away.

 

Hey it cant hurt to try it.

 

Tried it and the check engine light is still on.

 

did you get the MAF dirty?

 

no I don't think so I just unscrewed it form the old intake and put it directly on to the new one.

 

might want to check that.

 

Its about to hit 40k miles and i don't know when the next time I'm supposed to bring it in is but shouldn't the maintenance required light be on instead of the check engine light.

 

the CEL and main light are totally different

bring your car to autozone and have them read the CEL code

 

I reset the ECU and cleaned the MAF there was a bit of black dust on it so i wiped it down with a paper towel and got rid of all of it. Waited a half hour for it to reset and good as new no CEL. Thanks all.