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Just recently my "TCS off" + "slip" light has been coming on randomly, as well as the engine light.

Sometimes it's when I've first started the car, sometimes it just comes on randomly when I'm driving. I can clear them sometimes by turning the engine off and on again but not always. If the traction control was faulty that wouldn't be so bad but the engine light worries me :P

It does seem to idle a bit rougher when the 3 lights come on.

Should I be worried? HELP!

The first Skidpan i took mine to, this started happening half way through the day. what it ended up being was the battery negative terminal loosened itself off and got a bad connection hapopening. this brought on "engine light" "abs" "tcs" and "slip". it ended up completely deestroying my battery internaly. Had to miss half the day and roll start it till i got a new battery :sick:

Could be the same, or it could be something more serious. But still worth investigating the battery I'd say :)

Hey mate, mine was doing that a while back and it was a wheel speed sensor. If you take it to someone with a scan tool they should be able to tell you.

And now it's just started doing it again too.... bummer!

Just recently my "TCS off" + "slip" light has been coming on randomly, as well as the engine light.

Sometimes it's when I've first started the car, sometimes it just comes on randomly when I'm driving. I can clear them sometimes by turning the engine off and on again but not always. If the traction control was faulty that wouldn't be so bad but the engine light worries me :laugh:

It does seem to idle a bit rougher when the 3 lights come on.

Should I be worried? HELP!

could be your coil pack as well.....

could be your coil pack as well.....

it does do it with couil packs when they are on the way out, i had a faulty coil pack and it would sometimes cut in and out even for half a second and you wouldnt notice and then this would happen until you turned it off and on again..worth checking them

  • 3 months later...

ok just a follow up on this... did an oil change and thought I'd check out the plugs/coil packs but I couldn't get the long bit of plastic off without pulling a million other things off so i gave up, stupid bitch of a thing..

Anyway... as well as an oil and filter change, I cleaned and re-oiled my pod, which was FILTHY.. and the problem has gone :P

It's really bizarre and I don't know why, but I'm happy that I don't seem to need coil packs after all!

hey dude, in case the problem comes back, it has been well covered:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Tc...p;hl=tc+failure

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Ma...Li-t316918.html

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Co...ss-t319446.html

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Pe...re-t319597.html

to read the fault code follow this:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Re...de-t266512.html

does/did it make a wrx style popping when it failed? this all happened to mine, haven't bothered to fix it yet tho. can't quite afford new coilpacks (ie: splitfires)

yeah "popping" at higher revs

but at idle more just really rough or jerky... it would sound like it was running on 5 cylinders. Or like an old 70's VW haha

Thanks for the links, I'll check em out. Hopefully it doesn't come back!

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