My Ford Focus 1.6 Zetec (52 plate) has been sat on my drive for 2 weeks, whilst I was away on holiday. Have had no problems whatsoever with it.

Worked perfectly after I got back. Only this morning I noticed the engine management light came on and has stayed on. The car runs fine, no weird noises. The only thing I have noticed since coming back is that the radioator fan keeps coming on. I have not noticed the temp gague going up though. Could this be the problem? Could it be that the water levels are low or that the car sitting on a drive for 2 weeks in hot weather has dried up the water level, thus making the fan go on, thus making the engine management light go on?

What do you suggest? I have been advised by a mechanic, a friend of mine, that these lights can come on for the siomplest of things, and has asked me to top up all fluid levels and keep an eye on it. Will the light turn itself off or must it be reset?

As people on here are the real proffessionals, just wanted to know what you thought it could be.

Ta

 

If the light is on it has an error code stored, you must find out what this code is before you can take any action. Tools to read the codes are readily available cheaply, as dealers charge more than the price of a tool just to read the code for you.

 

ok, but could this error signal be down to the water resevoir being low or having no water in it, thus causing te fan to keep coming on?

 

make sure your waters topped up, disconnect your battery for half an hour, the light should go off, if it doesnt, get a fault code reader and take it from there.

 

do i disconnect the negative? Will I have reinsert the radio code? If so, how? and will it affect the central locking?

Many thanks!!!