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Steve

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I bought one of the 2012 wrx crouching tigers about a month ago. It's done 35000ks, about a week after I got it driving up the road it went blank for half a second and kept going but the engine the traction control light came on and also the crusie control light was flashing. Got into winger in Hamilton they said it was something to do with the wastegate sensor. So it's been fine for the past few weeks but did it again the other day. Is there something possibly they missed?

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9 hours ago, boostin said:

Wastegate sensor?

im guessing wastegate solenoid error, or is there actually a wastegate sensor?

 

9 hours ago, Steve said:

If the wastegate sensor needs to be changed?

 

can you please ask them what they did to fix it and what the error code was / is? other than those lights which come on, how does it drive , does it feel like you are getting different kind of boost than usual?

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It just feels normal. It's going in on thursday. I did ask what they did last time and she just said they cleared the error code. Sounds like it something to do with solenoid to the wastegate. But yea I'll ask them exactly what they do to it. 

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*rolls eyes*

 

Winger techs and the "she's all fixed, we cleared the codes"

 

Not the first time I've seen it tbh. And if I was in your shoes I'd take it to someone who will actually tell you the fault, give you the fault code etc and make sure that you are okay with the codes being cleared. That kinda carry on annoys me. 

 

It could have been a sticking waste gate solenoid, normally a hit with brake cleaner will clean out the crud thats stopping it working properly, but be aware it'll happen again soon unless all the associated vacuum lines are also cleaned out. It's a couple of hours to do it thoroughly

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7 hours ago, Kiwi_Fozze said:

*rolls eyes*

 

Winger techs and the "she's all fixed, we cleared the codes"

 

Not the first time I've seen it tbh. And if I was in your shoes I'd take it to someone who will actually tell you the fault, give you the fault code etc and make sure that you are okay with the codes being cleared. That kinda carry on annoys me. 

 

It could have been a sticking waste gate solenoid, normally a hit with brake cleaner will clean out the crud thats stopping it working properly, but be aware it'll happen again soon unless all the associated vacuum lines are also cleaned out. It's a couple of hours to do it thoroughly

And from the other side of the coin as a Winger tech....

 

A lot of the time we get told to check and clear the code, check for anything obvious and kick it out. They'll get the cust to monitor. What the front counter people tell you, we don't know. 

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So took the car back in on thursday they checked all the codes and couldn't find a thing. They had there top "Award winning" tech look at it and even he was completely Stumped. So not to sure what to make of it. Took it for a drive around some back roads this morning where the targa had run earlier in the week and the car didn't miss a beat.

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23 hours ago, evowrx said:

 

Yep agreed incompetence is completely different. Intermittent faults are the worst.

Are they what! I had a Santa Fe with CAN issues. It would fault twice a year. Never got to figure that one out, the customer moved out of town. 

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