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Old 01-31-18, 06:04 AM
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2007 ES 350 with 147+Miles. Oil change on Monday and on the way to the office several lights came on. Check engine, slippery road and red ! along with "Check VSC Light.
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Check Vehicle Stability Control.
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Pull over safely, check temp gauge, coolant level and hopefully the CEL isn't flashing. Have the codes read at autozone or AAP for free and let us know. When the CEL is set, the other two are set automatically.
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It means you have some sort of a problem with engine, brakes, fuel supply, ignition...
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Thanks for your response. Made it to office safely, but will head straight to Autozone for diagnostics check. Hope it's not serious.
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Originally Posted by Moonsilver
Thanks for your response. Made it to office safely, but will head straight to Autozone for diagnostics check. Hope it's not serious.
FYI , RED means stop. Pull over is the correct procedure followed by shutting down the car. Try a restart and if same lights come on get the car towed. Driving a car with a red MIL on could be hazardous to yourself and others regardless if it "seems " OK.
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Originally Posted by jagtoes
FYI , RED means stop. Pull over is the correct procedure followed by shutting down the car. Try a restart and if same lights come on get the car towed. Driving a car with a red MIL on could be hazardous to yourself and others regardless if it "seems " OK.
Doesn't the red exclamation pt always come on when the CEL comes on? I think that is what he means. I didn't even know the MIL can be red. I believe blinking is bad...
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Originally Posted by Moonsilver
Thanks for your response. Made it to office safely, but will head straight to Autozone for diagnostics check. Hope it's not serious.


I think autozone won’t read VSC codes.
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Originally Posted by cl206
Doesn't the red exclamation pt always come on when the CEL comes on? I think that is what he means. I didn't even know the MIL can be red. I believe blinking is bad...
Just sayin any RED light that comes on while you are driving means stop.
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Originally Posted by jagtoes
Just sayin any RED light that comes on while you are driving means stop.
I agree but before they call a tow, they need to assess the situation. The red exclamation always accompanies a MIL (someone can correct me if Im wrong). If that is the case I would have called a tow like 5 times for the P0606 code before I fixed it by changing the 2 downstream O2 sensors.
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Originally Posted by cl206
I agree but before they call a tow, they need to assess the situation. The red exclamation always accompanies a MIL (someone can correct me if Im wrong). If that is the case I would have called a tow like 5 times for the P0606 code before I fixed it by changing the 2 downstream O2 sensors.
Sorry no need to defend yourself if it were a real fault and it later caused an accident it would have been a problem. You were lucky so we'll let it go at that.
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I agree see a red or orange light on the dash pull over and check the basics light oil level cooland level smell for burning smells and such like that
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Both times all those lights came on in our ES350, the CEL code identified a bad coil. Both times we got lucky in that the bad coils were 4 and 6 - facing the front of the car.

In CA parts stores can't check CEL's. In NC, maybe; go check.
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Originally Posted by Moonsilver
2007 ES 350 with 147+Miles. Oil change on Monday and on the way to the office several lights came on. Check engine, slippery road and red ! along with "Check VSC Light.
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