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<blockquote data-quote="UNG" data-source="post: 559850" data-attributes="member: 8931"><p>Did the car start ok or was it sluggish turning over</p><p></p><p>Does the car have a timed follow me home function on the lights</p><p></p><p>So have you had the car from new</p><p></p><p>All the above suggest a battery issue, how old is the battery on the vehicle while they can appear ok they can cause so many issues, with vehicles these days being extremely power hungry if the ECU's are not seeing the expected readings from powered sensors you can get a lot of cascade faults across the ECU's</p><p></p><p>From past experience with a number of vehicles without connecting a diagnostic tool and reading the DTC codes you are on a hiding to nothing IMO and just clutching at straws trying to repair it. At least with a diagnostic tool you can read and save the codes before erasing / resetting them</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UNG, post: 559850, member: 8931"] Did the car start ok or was it sluggish turning over Does the car have a timed follow me home function on the lights So have you had the car from new All the above suggest a battery issue, how old is the battery on the vehicle while they can appear ok they can cause so many issues, with vehicles these days being extremely power hungry if the ECU's are not seeing the expected readings from powered sensors you can get a lot of cascade faults across the ECU's From past experience with a number of vehicles without connecting a diagnostic tool and reading the DTC codes you are on a hiding to nothing IMO and just clutching at straws trying to repair it. At least with a diagnostic tool you can read and save the codes before erasing / resetting them [/QUOTE]
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