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CEL Traction control and blinking cruise control

33K views 8 replies 7 participants last post by  cspencer2406  
#1 ·
Alright. So I've had my 2014 wrx for about 2 weeks. Only has 8800 miles on it. Stock everything, but just installed Cobb AP about a week ago. Stage 1 and have had no problems. Drove to work this morning everything was fine. Leaving work I start my car and have CEL, traction control light and a blinking cruise control light. Tried turning off car and starting it again. Tried looking it up and saw the other post on the forum and it mentioned the gas cap. Tried resetting the cap and still same lights. So I drove the 25 miles home very conservatively.. Got my AP and tried to run the diagnostics on it and it said there were no codes. I selected the clear codes option, shut the car off then on start up they were all gone. Pretty weird, the car felt normal also, but I never got it above 3000. Drove around after the cleared codes and felt perfect.

Any suggestions or anybody seen this?
 
#5 ·
It probably was your gas cap. Sometimes the lights can take up to 2 days to turn back off after they are on. A quick diagnostic of the CEL light, before you tried a solution, would have relieved exactly what the ecu was picking up being wrong. Next time, make this your first step and your solution will be worlds easier to find, rather than just blindly looking for an answer to something that could quite literally be ANYTHING wrong with the engine and it's operation. CEL's will tell you EXACTLY what is wrong.
 
#6 ·
the cruise and traction control lights are common when the CEL comes on. Like others have stated, it's probably a pinched or broken line somewhere, or a gas cap.
I had a CEL a few months ago that my OBD scanner didn't pick up, so I took it to Autozone and their scanner was able to read the code. If the CEL comes back, have it scanned somewhere rather than erasing it with the AP.