Posted on 11/25/2014 11:06:02 AM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon
Edited on 11/25/2014 11:43:23 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
It happened on Thursday night. I went out to my car. I climbed inside. I turned the key in the ignition. And
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I bought an Acura.
I think my low air pressure light came on one time but it told me which tire. Even tells me how much pressure is in each tire.
Never had another warning light come on.
We have a new Mercedes GLK 350....hubby’s car. He hates it. The friggin lights come on when it is time for a $400 service based on miles. Nothing is wrong. You just hit the mileage where they need $400.
A friend of mine, a mechanic, once was griping to me that every car that had come over the past 5 weeks had nothing more than bad sensors which triggered the engine lights. 14 bays, always full and his guys were really getting bored with it all.
I keep getting a battery warning light even though its a new battery. Kill the engine, restart, light goes out. No one at Chrysler knows why.
Our new Mercedes does the same thing. An actual diagram of the car shows up with the info.
Because you might not have a factory stereo. And you don’t have to go to the dealer, you can buy a decoder for cheap, or learn your car’s konami code.
This sounds like it was written by a woman who knows little about cars.
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Know why Brits drink warm beer?
Lucas makes refridgerators, too..
The check engine light is the ultimate Idiot light designed for one thing- make money for the dealership. It would cost $.02 more to have an LCD readout of the actual problem, but then the customer would not have to take the car back to the dealership for service.
Chrysler used to build in a “Check engine” fault programmed to come on every 50,000 miles. You HAD to go to a mechanic and pay $50 (or more) to get it turned off.
I just go to autozone and they plug in their reader and give me the printout. No charge.
I take my car to autozone and they put the machine on it and tell me what it says. I changed the gas cap myself. I finally pulled the fuse on the darn brakes...after all kinds of false readings.
Why do people buy those things? It has to be masochism.
A small digital readout would work, too.
OR...you can be like me. I have a 1969 VW beetle. I spent two years restoring this car. She and I are one. I can hear, feel, smell, and sense anything wrong with the car. No need for the idiot lights.
And unlike my ex-wife, she won’t leave me for another guy.
I have a buddy who used to be a General Manager at a Nissan dealership. I got all my cars from him for over 20 years. One time my check engine light came on.
He said, “Bring it in and I’ll have them shut that off. That’s just to get you into the dealership so we can sell you things.”
But then you have to find room for it. And people will gripe about that. Check engine light works fine for me, of course I close my gas cap so it pretty much never turns on.
137,000 miles on mine. Have a new battery, new rear brakes, new filters, and regular maintenance on the transmission.
Oh and I did have new tires and a the vales adjusted at 120,000 miles. Never had a warning light.
I guess my interior is getting rough and the button for the drivers side window is wearing out. They just dont make things like they used too.
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