orange light shaped like an engine comes on when starting up and stays on?

This has happened to my 1.8 petrol just recently, the book says it's the emission control light. Two days later it went off again and has stayed off, no ill effects. Heard in other forums of this happening and people being charged £800 to replace the ECU, so beware!

Derek
June 2008

Hi Philip, it means the engine ECU has a stored fault that needs attention, you'll have to get it connected to a code reader to find the fault

nigel
April 2008