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355 + 360 Owners - Does your car get a check engine light when you ship it somewhere?

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Does your 355 or 360 get a check engine light when you ship it somewhere?

Poll closed Jun 15, 2021.

  1. Yes

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  2. No

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  3. Sometimes

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  1. Rob Chiang

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    #1 Rob Chiang, May 16, 2021
    For all you 355 and 360 owners out there, when you ship your cars somewhere does a check engine light come on upon arrival?
    So I bought a car from Marshall Goldman. My 360 Spider arrived with a check engine light and I was instructed by Arthur Knight to keep driving it until it went away. His reasoning was the change in sea levels caused the warning light to appear. Driving the car around didn't magically make the solid check engine light go away. The car battery also didn't die during shipping.

    Elevation of Cleveland is 653 feet. My house elevation is 6 feet. That's an elevation change of -647 feet.
    If this is normal for 355 and 360's, what are the usual trouble codes?

    Does your trouble code clear itself? If Yes, how many driving miles of normal driving does it take?

    I couldn't find any post on this topic so if there is already one please redirect me. Thanks for reading and responding to this post. Really appreciate it.

    FYI my check engine light was 2 cylinders misfiring and needed mechanical work done.
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  2. BDubbs

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    #2 BDubbs, May 19, 2021
    I just shipped my 360 from Cleveland to Seattle, no issues with CEL. Also 2 years ago, it was shipped from L.A. to Cleveland with no CEL. I dont think this is normal...

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  3. Rob Chiang

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    #3 Rob Chiang, May 19, 2021
    Thanks for your reply. That's good to know it shouldn't be normal. If we can get ten more owners to reply the same that would be confirmed.
     
  4. Hocakes

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    #4 Hocakes, May 19, 2021
    Yes, a car in a truck NOT RUNNING magically detects altitude change & triggers a CEL. Did he also sell you some unicorn feathers?????

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    #5 vrsurgeon, May 19, 2021
    Pull the code with a reader. Shouldn't happen.
     
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    #6 EastMemphis, May 19, 2021
    I had a CEL when I first started up my car after shipping it from upstate (high altitude) NY to TN (low altitude). There was a hurricane passing through the area when I left NY too, which made the barometer extra low. The CEL went away on its own after about 10 minutes of driving. Never came back. I didn't have a code reader at the time so wasn't able to capture what happened. Haven't had another since and it's been about two years.

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  7. 32 Ford

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    #7 32 Ford, May 19, 2021
    Changes in altitude would cause some fuel/ air mixture problems. There might be a code set if there was a change until the the computer re-learned the new requirements. But I am taking about going from say LA to Denver. A 600 foot altitude change would have no effect. the air density change is negligible. If that was the case every time you drove the car up a hill it would log a CEL.
     
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    #8 32 Ford, May 19, 2021
    I would say the salesman's answer was code for , go away and quite bothering me.
     
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    #9 Shark01, May 19, 2021
    Further to this, you can erase the code and see if it comes back in the next 50-75 miles.....
     
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  10. Rob Chiang

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    #10 Rob Chiang, May 19, 2021
    The only time the car would have run would be loading unloading in the shippers trailer about 7 times to change positions in the trailer. Otherwise yes I drank the unicorn Kool aid. Yummy.
     
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    #11 Rob Chiang, May 19, 2021
    Interesting. Thanks
     
  12. Rob Chiang

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    #12 Rob Chiang, May 19, 2021
    Indeed time has proven your statement CORRECT.
     

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