This morning the exhaust emmission light came on in my '53' plate VW Polo. Is it OK to continue driving it until the next service (Its already booked a service and MOT in 2 weeks time)
I'm especially concerned as I was planning to drive to a Gig 50miles away tomorrow night. Would it be worthwhile to only use it on local journeys untill the garage can have a look at it.|||This is a common fault on polo's, it could just be that the lambda probe that is in the exhaust has failed, my service history shows my car has had one at about the same age yours is now, like the other guy said some dodgy fuel can cause this but there are other theories, sometimes if you take the car on a really short journey and switch the engine off it can trigger this fault due to a build up of gas in the exhaust system.
It only takes a small change in exhaust emmissions to trigger this fault, I'd say your ok to wait till the service, you may find it will go off it's self like mine did|||The engine you will not harm but the catalyst you may if not already which is an expensive replacement. That will be needed for M.O.T.|||The "Exhaust Emmision" light means that your car is burning off too much fuel. Most likely you have bad gas (with water) or you have a spark plug out and its just clogged up your catalytic converter or your sensors are telling you that you are putting out something into the atmosphere that we shouldn't. If will not harm your car in anyway shape or form. The environment is a WHOLE other question.
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