Had a Bad Day

[asharb123]

I was wet and cold having watched my son's football practice when my car decided to have a melt down on the way home. All the warning lights came on and then told to switch the engine off. My car is not a Lexus (and I hear some of you say, if you had a Lexus it would be more reliable). I called my wife (who drives the IS200) to collect our son while I waited for the recovery service. On her way to me in the IS, the engine light comes on, then the trc off starts flashing on and off and then the handbrake sign comes on. She wasn't too far from me when all this happened. When she was ready to go, the car would not start it would not even tick over. The recovery service put a Battery pack on the car and it did not start. The day ended with both our cars leaving on the back of flat bed trailers. The staff at the King William IV (Pub and Diner on Chigwell High Rd) where I limped the car to were brilliant. That was the closet place off the main road I could stop. They brought out a pizza and drink for my son as they thought he might be hungry as it was lunchtime. I was completely taken back by their kind gesture and goodwill. I really did not expect that and that was the only silver lining to a wet day.

What do these warning lights mean? I've looked in the owners manual but it really doesn't mean anything to me. We also had no indication anything was wrong there were no warning lights yesterday when I drove the car or prior to that.

Engine light coming on?

Trc off keeps flashing on and off?

Handbrake light not going off?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[clifton 94]

You need to have the car code read this will tell you what's wrong with the car 

 

[VK289]

Sounds like a terrible day. But very nice of the people from the pub. Did you ever find out the issue?

[Dinho]

Buy an OBD II scanner and plug it in, see if it gives you any codes.
If it does give you codes, enter the codes into google search and it will let you know what each code means.
Once you have the codes you can decide whether it's something you can fix yourself or take to a garage.

If you don't get any codes when you plug in the scanner I would get a specialist to come out and have a look for you.