Keeping an eye on your car is essential in these modern times, indeed, if you do not do the lowest routine service of it, or if you do not take into consideration signals of abnormality, you highly risk to see your motor vehicle becoming unpleasant to use. This is precisely the subject we are going to focus on in this article, one of the symptoms that most disturbs car owners is the key indicator light on Dacia Duster dash . To try to help you analyze this light, first we will see what this key light on Dacia Duster points, then in a second how to proceed if the key light is lit on Dacia Duster? .
What does the key light on Dacia Duster indicate?
So we begin our article with the meaning of a key indicator light on Dacia Duster dash , it may be that furthermore to the key you have the logo of a car next to it. Take note that the main function of this light is to inform you that it’s time to service your Dacia Duster , however, this light can also have other meanings, even dozens of them. To find the source of this problem the best solution will be to run your Dacia Duster through the diagnostic too l, if you don’t know how to do this process, you can find all the needed information to accomplish this action in our dedicated article. We will try in the following list to give you the maximum information on the main warning information it can send you:
- An oil change done without resetting the indicator: If you have done your oil change on your own, it is very likely that you have not thought of resetting the oil change indicator of your Dacia Duster, here is the process to do this small reset of the key light of your car.
- Oil level problem: It is possible that the oil level sensor is indicating that the oil level is too low.
- EGR Valve: Another opportunity is that the key light on your Dacia Duster is on because your EGR valve is dirty, very often the case if you are driving short distances or not pushing the gears of your vehicle.
- Glow plugs: Finally, the last and most basic cause of an orange wrench light on Dacia Duster is that your glow plugs are getting tired.
What if the orange key light on Dacia Duster is on?
We are now going to proceed to the second component of our article and try to present you the solutions to each of the problems mentioned in the previous part and therefore how to proceed if I see the wrench light on your Dacia Duster? To achieve this, we will take turns answering each of the problems you may face:
- Reset the drain indicator light: As we described previously, a very easy reset of the indicator light on your Dacia Duster will be enough to turn off the key indicator and restart it for a cycle of 10 000km or 1 year, see our article to accomplish this operation.
- Oil level problem: This is a very basic problem and the easiest to solve. You will simply have to verify your oil level, we recommend you to take the opportunity to check all your oil levels.
- EGR Valve: In the circumstance of a light that comes on as a result of the EGR valve, you will need to have the points of this fault code through the diagnostic tool. Once you are sure of the source of the problem, you can try to clean your car by pushing the gears (hot engine), in any other case disassemble and clean the EGR valve of your Dacia Duster, we made a tutorial to help you to do it. In any other case, go to a garage area and prepare to pay a few hundred euros.
- Glow plugs: Finally, if your problem comes from your glow plugs, the process to change them is quite very easy and you won’t need more than 40 euros worth of glow plugs.
There, you now know everything about the wrench light on Dacia Duster , we hope this article has helped you solve your problem.
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