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Guest tori
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I have a 52 reg 1.4 Auto that I bought a couple of months ago. I love it and it normally runs fine, but in the last few weeks it has developed a strange habit. I will be driving along quite happily and all of a sudden the sports and ice mode icons will start flashing together and the 'D' to indicate Drive disappears off the dash. I can't switch the modes off, and I have to stop the car, switch off the ignition and switch it on again (the old fail safe - if in doubt swithc it off and switch it on again!). It doesn't seem to affect performance and to add to the wierdness it only happens on the same ten yard stretch of road!!! :) Any ideas what is causing this??
Guest tori
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What else is there on that piece of road, TV/radio transmitter, mobile phone tX, airfield radar TX, car counter wires under road for traffice lights?

 

 

Not a lot to be honest! There is a property with electric gates and the road runs along side a business park. Do you think it could be a signal interfering? Is just off a roundabout too, so there could be car counter wires.

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It's very wierd that it only happens in the same place though...

 

You say it's just off a roundabout - I wonder if there is a layer of diesel or similar on the road surface (buses and waggons are terrible for this - ask any biker!) making it a bit slippery just as you put the power down and it's confusing the ECU?

  • 4 weeks later...
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Just in case it happens to anyone else, turned out to be a gearbox fault. I am having all the electrovalves replaced. £500 - great.

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