I know this has been covered many times before but the search function keeps giving me proxy errors so I apologize in advance.

A heat light with a coil looking figure came on today when I started my car on my way home. What is this light and how can I fix it? I have no other problems with the car except for an idle issue that is caused by my airpump.

Any help would be really appreciated and I apologize again if this has been covered before

 

Sounds like a question for the second gen forum. The heat hazzard sensor is underneath the passenger seat. If that light is on then your catalytic converter is probably clogged.

 

In the dash? Is it orange? Cuz that may be the rear windshield defrost light

 

Sorry I should have been more specific about my car. I have a 92 Japspec FD. I don't have a cat, just a DP,midpipe and exhaust.

And no FD Newbie it's not the windshield defrost light. It's a red light with the word heat written on it with a coil looking symbol.

So being that I don't have a cat, do I still have the heat hazzard sensor?

 

I *think* the Japanese cars actually had a probe in the main cat to read the temp inside the cat itself. Is that probe still in there somewhere?

Dale

 

I seriously don't remember seeing one in the main cat but I do remember taking a probe out when I changed out my DP. It looked like a EGT probe with a steel braided hose/line making it's way through the dash.

I thought that the previous owner had an EGT guage installed but removed it cause I have a 60mm hole in my dash where I guess it used to be. I have one on order so I can plug the hole back up.

I'll put the car on a lift tomorrow and see if I can find any other probe under there. Does the main cat you're referring to Dale is the midpipe??? Sorry for being dumb about this issue.

 

Thats absolutely correct. And yes the heat light is on the dash for Jap Spec cars. I have the same configuration on my fd.

 

could it be the exhaust overheat light?

 

do you have a pfc?

if so, see my post in the japan section

 

Sorry, not trying to change topic here; just curious. What's in the console on the Jap FD where the heat light is on the US FD

 

Pic of Heat Light location on JDM cars. Sorry bout the quality though Underground parking lot + Mobile Phone Cameras= bad quality pic. But just to satisfy some curious forum members.