Dashboard Warning

[is200 Newbie]

I had the red warning triangle come on this morning on the dash board

My heart sank as I heard the warning tone then the red triangle flashed up - was relieved to see it was only a warning to tell me the washer bottle was empty...

Phew !!

[james250]

lol, i remember the first time i saw this over 5 years ago, it gave me quite a shock too. It's quite dramatic just for washer fluid warning lol. I was told by Lexus tech that it's good so you dont run dry and end up causing something like the headlamp washer pump to burn out which can be an expensive replacement.

[ChumpusRex]

Heh. Had something similar today.

One of the headlights had burned out, so because it is such a pain to change the bulbs, I decided to do both.

Replaced one. Turned car on to turn on lights. All OK.

Replaced the other. Turned car back on. All OK.

Put car back together.

Started up. Dash lit up like a christmas tree, check VSC, flashing triangle, skid light on.

Heart sink feeling.

The I realised. You have to disconnect the MAF sensor to change the bulbs.

The ECU gives any non catastrophic fault 2 chances before going into "fault" mode. The two "test" runs had put the ECU into fault mode.

Even though the car was back together, and everything was fine, the ECU doesn't cancel the lights until at least 3 engine starts with no fault present.

By the time I'd found my techstream cable, and got it hooked up, the lights had gone.