***UPDATE***

weird, the light stayed on for 2 days,and today i noticed it was off lol...

i didnt disconnect the batt or anything, just disappeared... any ideas?
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i had my car a week and a half now (1200miles) andddddd driving home just now the service engine light popped on..


and no i dont put gas in while its running, drive with the cap off, radio on in the car while fueling ect ect....

have an appointment wed.


oh btw i think my car is doing the shimmy thing, im gonna take a video of it and post it to show it

 

Welcome to the club! Took mine into the dealer and they wouldn't tell me what's up with it.

 

shimmy club or service engine club ???

 

Service engine club. I haven't felt the car shimmy... unless I'm driving on the really "good roads" in Fort Worth.

 

the car doesnt shimmy..... the wheel shakes back and forth even if the cars goin straight as an arrow....

 

Mine came on at the same time as well. However, after about 200 miles it shut off. The dealership said I probably didn't click the gas cap 3 times when I put it on. If I'm not mistaken it takes the computer about 17 cycles before it will reset the light.

 

That's the funny part, I drove it for a week and a half, way beyond the 17 cycles and 200 miles and it was still on. It's too bad they couldn't display the error codes (and an english translation of that code) in the display console. That would've been nice.

Of course, there's always the pull-the-battery-cables-and-sit-for-a-day reset.

 

Well, good luck. I hope it's nothing serious. How do you like the car otherwise? I was really starting to second guess myself on the purchase. The first week was great but then I started the nit-picking and was really not sure if I had made the right purchase or not. However, I've gotten past that phase and I really love the car...except the shimmy

 

oh i love it .... i dont give much of a crap for the little details...


for instance my dashboard center console (the alumunim looking crap) is scratcehd already, i think from my radar detector flying off the window when i hit the gas hard