Flashing eml on my corolla 1.6 vvti

[Leighton Lovell]

Any ideas on this? the car is only worth couple of hundred so if its major problem do you think i should scrap it? Cant really afford to take it to a garage.

[oldcodger]

Hi,

Two options, if its a once only EML then you can disconnect the Battery for a while and that should turn it off.

If it returns straight away then its a hard fault.

However in either case its best to first have the stored event codes read out so you can get some idea of whats likely wrong.

The error code/s will say which sensor is detecting an error, but that does not always mean its the sensor at fault, it could be something else going wrong causing the sensor to detect a problem.

You can ask most garages to do it for you, though check what the cost is first,  or buy yourself a code reader, from £10 on the usual places, but make sure its compatible with your model.