water in fuel warning light

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rickpullar
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I have a 2014 1.5dci and the warning light for "water in the fuel" has come on.

Following the advice on this forum, I removed the fuel filter and drained it. There was no sign of water.

As I was putting everything back together I sprayed switch cleaner on all the electrical contacts.

I still have the error light :cry:

Can anyone advise if there is any way of resetting something in the electronics that thinks there is still a fault?

Thanks
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Yes, you will need a reasonable fault reader that will read the fault code which you can then reset (erase)
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Post by lewisbryant »

Light should just go out by itself if it was water in the filter that was causing it and you've drained, probably the water sensor which is built into the sensor gone faulty seen it a few times
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Post by rickpullar »

Thanks everyone. Took it for a journey today around 90 miles and it hasn't cleared.

Decided to sell it, too many niggles. Good deals on at the moment and sales targets to reach by the end of April.
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