Q: Engine management light comes on and goes of again when the engine is warm car can also go into limp mode when cold, when warn ok

asked by on February 05, 2017

Had the car serviced the ecr valve cleaned and a terror clean done , the white smoke is only on first start in the mornings, the engine management light comes on and the car goes into limp mode but not for long when the car is warm it's fine runs great . Had some one read the code they got 3 but never got back to me any ideas.

My car has 105000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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