dsc unavailable, brake & engine light - thank you jag forum RESOLVED
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dsc unavailable, brake & engine light - thank you jag forum RESOLVED
totally new to jaguars, I am driving home today in my 2004 and I notice my engine light is on along with the brake light and a "dsc unavailable" .
Oh no.
As soon as I got home I made a bee line to my computer and started searching this forum to see if I could find out what was wrong and a fix. Of course I immediately found the throttle body problem along with many successes just cleaning it.
So I pop off the plastic engine guard and remove the intake hose. I am a HUGE fan of SeaFoam and always have some around the house so I grabbed a spray bottle I have just for this purpose. It was pretty grimy around the opening so i cleaned it 1st then opened up the butterfly and sprayed a really health dose in the throttle body.
I then pulled off the plugs to clean them. I repair/restore vintage audio gear as a hobby so I grabbed this stuff called DeOxit. It is used to clean contacts and is amazing stuff, so I sprayed that in the plug to clean them off. Let it dry a couple of minutes and then I put dialectic grease on the contacts and put it all together.
I then went ahead and sprayed another healthy dose of sefoam in the throttle body and put the intake hose back on. I like to let that stuff sit for a bit to do it's magic so started doing some other stuff and came back to it in about 1 1/2 hours.
Apprehensively I turned the key and as expected it did take a minute to start since it was full of seafoam, but she cranked up as expected and within seconds the engine light, brake light and the DSC warning were gone, but I still had the ABS light on. Bummer.
Going to take it for a test ride, by the time I got to the end of my driveway the ABS light went out, so all was back to normal. While not a long term test, I drove about 40 miles and everything seemed just fine.....
so thank you, thank you thank you jaguar forum.
Without info like this it could have cost me quite a bit of money. Instead, i have easy access to the info and with very little work I am hoping all is taken care of.
One thing I am now doing tho is running seafoam in my gas every few tankfuls to see if I can't prevent that from happening again.
Oh no.
As soon as I got home I made a bee line to my computer and started searching this forum to see if I could find out what was wrong and a fix. Of course I immediately found the throttle body problem along with many successes just cleaning it.
So I pop off the plastic engine guard and remove the intake hose. I am a HUGE fan of SeaFoam and always have some around the house so I grabbed a spray bottle I have just for this purpose. It was pretty grimy around the opening so i cleaned it 1st then opened up the butterfly and sprayed a really health dose in the throttle body.
I then pulled off the plugs to clean them. I repair/restore vintage audio gear as a hobby so I grabbed this stuff called DeOxit. It is used to clean contacts and is amazing stuff, so I sprayed that in the plug to clean them off. Let it dry a couple of minutes and then I put dialectic grease on the contacts and put it all together.
I then went ahead and sprayed another healthy dose of sefoam in the throttle body and put the intake hose back on. I like to let that stuff sit for a bit to do it's magic so started doing some other stuff and came back to it in about 1 1/2 hours.
Apprehensively I turned the key and as expected it did take a minute to start since it was full of seafoam, but she cranked up as expected and within seconds the engine light, brake light and the DSC warning were gone, but I still had the ABS light on. Bummer.
Going to take it for a test ride, by the time I got to the end of my driveway the ABS light went out, so all was back to normal. While not a long term test, I drove about 40 miles and everything seemed just fine.....
so thank you, thank you thank you jaguar forum.
Without info like this it could have cost me quite a bit of money. Instead, i have easy access to the info and with very little work I am hoping all is taken care of.
One thing I am now doing tho is running seafoam in my gas every few tankfuls to see if I can't prevent that from happening again.
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