Petrol/Gas Restart engine warning

[scoloco]

Its been a bit on the cold side here. Twice ive started up (after sitting outside in very cold temps -- ~5' F for a number of hours) and after a few mins, along with the overdue service message i seen a blue <Restart engine> message. First time i saw it and complied. Second time i was on the road before i saw it and finished the 15min drive. Petrol engine.
Related to the cold? Any ideas why?

 

[Tenac]

Wait there is a message that actually tells you to restart??? If so IT built this software for sure.... I would have no idea why it would tell you to restart just kinda mind blown if that is the actual message.

 

[255/85]

Maybe there's a small purely mechanical function that was prevented from running by the cold. I'm guessing something like an evap purge port check where a small amount of moisture may have frozen a valve or similar. I'd stop and restart just to be sure nothing catastrophic is happening.

 

[Tenac]

Maybe there's a small purely mechanical function that was prevented from running by the cold. I'm guessing something like an evap purge port check where a small amount of moisture may have frozen a valve or similar. I'd stop and restart just to be sure nothing catastrophic is happening.

I would assume a restart would mean something to do with ASS function or maybe limp mode. EVAP can typically be bypassed without an error message.

 

[255/85]

I wasn't trying to be specific but, imle, evap issues usually set a DTC.