Oil control valve 1 circuit malfunction open. 

Means nothing to me haha. Can anyway put that in simple terms and is it a costly job? 

The engine light is coming on and off with drives and start ups. Intermittently

Does the car rough idle when light is on?

Changing out the ocv or cleaning seems to be a good starting point.  Not too difficult and not too expensive.  

 

It does a bit ye and just before the light comes on the engine will hunt a bit and before the light goes off. I think it's intermittent so that would suggest it's on its way out or like you said it might need cleaning? 

Where abouts are they located lol. 

Sounds exactly same as mine.  I need to get the code read properly!

Generic photo attached. Might as well give it a clean first if you can get to it ok.  Can't see mine but light wasn't great in garage.  There's one on each bank.

 

Ok thanks. What would you recommend cleaning it with? Hopefully I can gain access to it lol. If only my engine was as clean as that 😍

Yeah mine too!! Probably something like a carb cleaner and allow to drain for a bit. 

Also when was the oil last changed? And did you use a different oil?

Not really had the car long enough to know what oil was in it previously but oil was changed about a week ago and the light has been on and off before the oil was changed and after.. it's currently off at the moment and hasn't been on for a couple of days 

I only say because people say the problem gets less after an oil change in some cases.

I see well that would seem the case at the moment I guess 

Would this cause the car to lose power when the light is on?

 

 

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Hi..how did u manage to fix this problem