Hi
I have just bought a Renault Kangoo RXE 1.4 petrol (year 2000)
It starts and runs fine but I the hand book shows two warning lights that don't appear to work on my car.
The one I am most concerned about is the 'tell-tale light 2' (a rectangular box with a zig zag line in it). It is also descibed as an ' electronic incident warning light. It should come on when the ignition is swithed on and then go out after a few seconds or when the engine is started.
On my car it does not come on at all. The other light, just a red dot, behaves as it should.
It also should come on when driving if there is an electronic / electrical fault with the engine management system.
The other warning light is for the air bags, (stearing wheel and front passenger) It does not do its test at switch on.
I had a look at the dashboard speedo console and it is very obvious that it has been taken apart in the past as the plastic clips have screwdiver marks on all of them and there is a dirty great finger print on the inside of the glass!! The odometer is electronic and the car came with full history, why would anyone need to go inside it?
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would anyone need to go inside it?
To remove the warning bulbs instead of fixing the fault.
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Hi Screwloose
Thanks for the reply. That was my first thought. That is why had a look inside myself. I found all the indicators are surface mount LEDs and not removable. The LEDs in question are still there and visibly look ok. If they are dead (killed on purpose) to mask a fault (engine ECU) would the car not be in 'limp home' mode and run badly.
I was hoping my model did not use this light and it's not suposed to come on at all, does that sound likely.
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Ok, I've had a closer look, by removing the temp. fuel and speedo pointers I could take off the thin plastic dial face exposing all the LEDs. And yes the airbag LED has been modified with a screwdriver and no long works.. I guess the ribbon thing to the airbag in the steering wheel is faulty and they didn't want to spend the £150+ to fix it properly (butchers).
The engine management LED looks and tests (lights up under test) ok so I am still at a loss as to why it does not light at switch on.
This model does not have ABS but it does have an unused yellow LED behind the ABS indicator that I could move to the airbag position. This would entail removing the circuit board from the white plastic frame ( the digital odo is mouted between the two) Has anybody stripped one down that far before? I am reluctant to go too far in case I break something. It would also give me the opportunity to trace out the eng management connections.
Any help would be gratefully received.
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Are you sure that you should have two MIL lights; the rectangle could be for diesel variants.
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Below the rectangle is a glow plug symbol they are both illuminated by the same LED. A friend has the same car but 2003 and both light for a few seconds at switch on. I tried unplugging the lambda sensor (and a few more) in the hope of bringing a fault light on, but nothing happend the engine ran fine!!
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