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NCT fail if engine management light on?

  • 28-10-2011 1:15pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭


    Will it fail if that light is on. there is nothing wrong with the car . ive had it diaganosed loads of times with no faults coming up but it keeps coming back on after a few weeks??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Yes it will fail. There must be a fault code otherwise someone tried a bit of botched wiring or dodgy circuit/ECU etc. What kind of car/engine?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭Vanhalla


    its a 02 megane 1.4.
    a few different mechanics over the last two years havent been able to find any fault so i dunno.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 724 ✭✭✭Paddy001


    It wont fail.... It will only fail if it is ABS or some type of safety feature, should pass with it on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Fairly sure it will. Since as the majority of engine management issues will effect the emissions therefore the polar bears will die and we have to keep the tree huggers happy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭hollypink


    Engine management light was on in my car when I went for NCT in March and it passed. From what I read at the time, the light itself being on is ok but the underlying reason why it is on could result in a fail.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭George Dalton


    It won't fail for just having the EML on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭Vanhalla


    ok it seems to differ!

    also if my car is 02 will i get another two years on the cert or just one year? my current cert is up on 31/12/11


  • Posts: 24,714 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It definitely wont fail on the light alone, Almost every time I have nct'd a car the EML light has been on.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Nah, won't fail. I sent an Octavia through with the light on. As has been said the cause of the light being on may be a cause for failure though.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭Supraman


    If no mechanical fault shows up in the test it WILL NOT fail for just the bulb being illuminated . That's a fact not hearsay.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    Only safety related warning will fail so airbag, ABS etc.

    The problem thats causing the light to come on may cause the car to fail though but not the light itself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    Mine passed about 3 weeks ago with the eml on and there were no problems. Thank god


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    I stand corrected:) I was nearly full sure that was the latest money racket they've created. Were they talks about failing cars on the EML at any stage?:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,261 ✭✭✭mgbgt1978


    Ensure the malfunction indicators for Airbags, Electronic Stability Control (ESC) and Electronic Braking System (EBS) / Anti-Lock
    Braking System (ABS) are in working order.


    Page 91 of the NCT manual (down at the bottom of the manual download).....no mention of EML.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭promethius


    my engine light was on while the car sailed through nct a few weeks ago.


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