No, nothing supernatural, or at least, I hope not !
The engine management light came on in my wife's Qashqai the other day. Bit of a puzzle as it seems to be driving ok. However, I took it into our local indie to check it out, and he was totally flummoxed by it. Because, the fault code suggests a problem with the gear position sensor / stop start system. The former being the gizmo that shows which gear you're in on an auto, and the latter being self explanatory. As her car isn't fitted with stop/start and is a manual...well, you can see why he was scratching his head.
He's contacted Nissan technical and they can't shed any light ( sorry about that ) on it either other than "maybe it needs a software update" ( oh joy )
So, he's given me the car back ( no charge bless him ) but with the wee orange light still on.
I've been googling around for a few minutes and it turns out that this is a known fault among Qashqaistas. Seems that it's an early sign of a shonky battery and that replacing it should make everything better. Given that her car is 9 years old now, and still on its original battery, it's got to be worth a try hasn't it, before I go paying the Nissan dealer squillions to plug it into whatever they plug it into, to do whatever the pluggy inny thingy does?
You'd think anyway, wouldn't you?
Last edited by: Runfer D'Hills on Wed 20 Sep 17 at 16:24
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