Volvo S60

120,000 MILES • 5 CYL • FWD • AUTOMATIC
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PPERREIRA
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My Volvo S60 has the check engine light flashing. the alert says "try slow down or shift up"
Please help
Dec 20, 2010 at 6:11 PM
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JIS001
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A flashing check engine light means you have a severe misfire. Have it scanned for codes to see what cylinder is misfiring. Once you get the cylinder number, I would suspect a bad ignition coil. What you can do to verify this is swapp the coil with another coil on a different cylinder. Have the fault codes erase and road test. If the misfire follows the coil in the cylinder you installed it then the coil is bad. Keep me posted please.
Dec 20, 2010 at 10:59 PM
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