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Originally Posted by lizbrayan
Few days later went for a sprited drive with the sports mode on and manual shifting (car is A/T) and after about 15-20 mins the cel came back on. I said F*** it and drove home shut it off and let it sit for a day or so. Came back light was gone and drove fine. This is the most confusing car I've ever owned
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You're only confused because you have incomplete information. To make it less confusing, get either a bluetooth OBDII adapter and Torque (Android) or a wifi adapter and DashCommand (iPhone) so you can read the codes yourself. If you're on Android, the BT adapter will run you $15 to $25 for a decent one off Amazon, and Torque Pro is around $6 on the Google Play store. Then you can read, research and clear your codes yourself. You can also monitor sensor data that the car has available but doesn't display on any of the stock gauges. Torque and DashCommand will do anything a $200 scan tool will do, and then some.
Then, when the CEL comes on, read it, write down the code and either search for it on the internet or come post it here to ask if anyone else knows what might be causing it. Confusion mitigated.
I once threw a code in rural Arkansas, read it with Torque, got on the internet to research it, found a thread
on this site discussing it, determined that it could be cleared safely, used Torque to clear it and continued on my seven hour drive. All without getting out of my car.