mtb9153 Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Tried to start Maxus and I got a triangle with an exclamation point inside on the drivers display, also a check engine light came on and no start. Shut off the start button waited a few seconds, tried again and same thing. Waited a few more and third try worked. Hasn't happened again and hope it doesn't. Anybody else had anything like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Fried Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Similar problem once. Hasn't repeated yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wab Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 You should have a/some error code/s. Do you have a OBDII code reader?If not your favorite should be able to read it and maybe tell what it means.If you have one let us know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fbov Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Or look in engineering mode... hold the left OK button on the wheel when starting. Scroll down for error codes.Frank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMax Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Sounds like the Safety Alert, according to the owner's manual. Absolutely no info in the manual past that description though.I always forget about engineering mode. Still haven't tried it yet, but on my list of things to do. Let us know what you get figured out Mike. I wonder if it could be something as simple as a gas cap not being tightened completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtb9153 Posted October 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Thanks everyone for your comments, I will give the engineering mode a try and see what happens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bemyax Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Yes, I can produce the error, fairly reliably, I think. All I have to do is leave my OBD reader active by keeping the Torque application open. If I start the car and try to drive away, the car computer crashes, my heart jumps up into my throat, and I get the warning to pull over safely. You would have to pay me to do it on purpose, however. Let us know if you can find any error codes generated. When it happened, I didn't look for them before a normal restart. Maybe you have a cracked control module. (You know, from doing jumps in Maxus. :wink: ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 This happened once to me over a year ago. I left the car over night and the next morning it started right up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxanotcar Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Might be I have the same error that happened last Sunday morning. Turned on my car to move to different spot of parking, drove a very short distance, and as soon as the ICE kicking in, there were two lights: one is orange symbol and one symbol is red (cannot remember what symbols looked like, but they were above the organe engine light picture which was off). And a small box came up showing something like "stop the car to safety?????". I turned the key off and back on, still the same error. I took the key out and locked the car, and about 1hr 30mins later I had to drive somewhere, turned on the car and drove as normal, the error have not been shown up since. . .. .. Bizzzzzzaaaarreeee .. .. . . .. . .About 32K miles now. Does anyone do some kind of post like: bizarre things that a CMAX does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelleytoons Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Considering a computer (or three) is running things inside these cars it doesn't surprise me at all. Having been in IT for nearly half a century nothing a computer does or will do will ever surprise me. And unless it's something that can be (easily) repeated I don't think I'd think twice about it (can't tell you how many times we'd get tech calls about things that we could *never* reproduce again). wab and JAZ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FordService Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Tried to start Maxus and I got a triangle with an exclamation point inside on the drivers display, also a check engine light came on and no start. ... Might be I have the same error that happened last Sunday morning. Turned on my car to move to different spot of parking, drove a very short distance, and as soon as the ICE kicking in, there were two lights: one is orange symbol and one symbol is red (cannot remember what symbols looked like, but they were above the organe engine light picture which was off). And a small box came up showing something like "stop the car to safety?????". ... Keep me posted on how your vehicles are doing, mtb9153 and mxanotcar. I'm here to help! Rachel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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