W4CKY
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- VE Calais
Hey all,
Been having a few issues with my 08 VE Calais, so thought I'd make an account and see if anyone with a bit more wisdom might be able to help.
About three weeks ago the cruise control began randomly deactivating whilst at highway speeds (tested it a little, could only ever get it to happen when travelling at >80kph) and wouldn't allow me to reactivate it without turning the car off and leaving it for an hour or so. When this happened, the car would pull a little as if someone had pressed the brake.
In addition, half of the time this was happening - I would get an alarm that the ESP was off and pressing the button to reactivate it would do nothing. I made plans to get this seen to after the holiday break, as these things didn't seem to be anything more than an annoyance.
Yesterday however, I went to start the car and was greeted with a new alarm, telling me to 'Check Engine'. I gave it a moment and took off gently to see how it handled, and found that it was running VERY rough and had trouble accelerating past about 2000rpm. I don't know if this newest issue is related to the above, but if anyone has had anything similar happen - what was the cause and how did you fix it?
Thanks.
Been having a few issues with my 08 VE Calais, so thought I'd make an account and see if anyone with a bit more wisdom might be able to help.
About three weeks ago the cruise control began randomly deactivating whilst at highway speeds (tested it a little, could only ever get it to happen when travelling at >80kph) and wouldn't allow me to reactivate it without turning the car off and leaving it for an hour or so. When this happened, the car would pull a little as if someone had pressed the brake.
In addition, half of the time this was happening - I would get an alarm that the ESP was off and pressing the button to reactivate it would do nothing. I made plans to get this seen to after the holiday break, as these things didn't seem to be anything more than an annoyance.
Yesterday however, I went to start the car and was greeted with a new alarm, telling me to 'Check Engine'. I gave it a moment and took off gently to see how it handled, and found that it was running VERY rough and had trouble accelerating past about 2000rpm. I don't know if this newest issue is related to the above, but if anyone has had anything similar happen - what was the cause and how did you fix it?
Thanks.