Traction Control Light won't turn off and Glow Plug light is flashing too :(

[andy_p]

Drove to work this morning and noticed after a couple of minutes driving that the TCS light was on. I pressed the button a couple of times and nothing happened. I pulled over and restarted the car, but the light stayed on.

I pressed the traction control light a couple more times, and the glow plug light started to flash and contiuned to do so for the rest of my journey

I've done a search on the forum and understand the TCS light may be due to a broken wire, and the flashing glow plug light may be related to a fault with the brake sensor or break lights.

However, what's going on with both of these things happening at the same time? Is this indicative of a different problem?

I've has the following work done to the car recently (all at a Seat Dealer):

Nearside rear wheel baring replaced (one month ago)
Replacement nearside front alloy and tyre (1 week ago) due to kerbing it pretty badly in order to avoid an accident.
Replacement nearside brake light (1 week ago)

For a car that had it's 4th birthday 2 days ago, it seems to be spending a lot of time in the Seat garage of late.

Thanks for your help

 

[gus]

Replacement nearside brake light (1 week ago)


i had thsi problem when i changed over my rear lights, check if the bulb is in correctly as once i fitted them it went off.

the traction light ive never heard of that mate sorry.

 

[andy_p]

cheers guys, will give that a check with crossed fingers

 

[RUM4MO]

I'd immagine it will be either a brake light bulb or the brake light switch that is mounted on the brake pedal - they tend to be very unreliable.

 

[carpboy]

I'd immagine it will be either a brake light bulb or the brake light switch that is mounted on the brake pedal - they tend to be very unreliable.

yea my switch went on my pedal,which meant both rear brake lights out for me!

 

[andy_p]

turned out that both brake lights had blown! (strange as one was only a week old).

problem now sorted, thanks people

 

[mymorph]

reminds me when both my brake lights had blown - i hadnt noticed it was only when the stealer rang me up on a routine service - they wanted to connect to the computer (VAG) to see what was wrong and charge me £90. i asked them if they had tried changing the bulbs yet? they hadnt!!!!

 

[michael2901]

turned out that both brake lights had blown! (strange as one was only a week old).

Hi sorry to be thick, but mine has developed the exactly the same problem and for the avoidance of any doubt did this turn both lights out???

Seems very strange if it does but hey its a cheap quick fix!

 

[SkimpyWan]

Cheers for the advice boys (and maybe girls?!).

Today, within 5 miles, I had the traction control warning light come on and then the flashing glow-plug warning light. As I was only going around a round-about, and I was stuck driving through Salisbury plain, I decided to pull into a pub car park and check the forum before before calling the RAC.

Thanks to this thread I decided to check the break lights and low-and-behold both sides were out!!

I then decided to drive to the nearest Halfords (which was 16 miles away) to get some more bulbs and the problem has now gone away (for the time being atleast!!).

Cheers for the constant friendly advice on this forum and I hope that this thread come in handy for other in the future.

Laters

Skimpy Wan

 

[CJFR]

Legen.......wait for it........DAIRY!!!

Same problem happened to me this morning and after just checking all my brake lights are out.

Thanks for the help guys.

 

[Bondiblu]

Mines recently had the traction control light on, just check my bulbs seem fine : (