The check engine light. Is not that supposed to be covered up with a piece of black electrician’s tape?
It is more a range rover thing as opposed to an engine light thing
Buy one of those $20 Chinese made code readers. Mine works great.
I have an older car. Still, on the radio display you can get all sorts of messages and info about this and that. Why, instead of “check engine”, they can’t put a text message about the problem up, I don’t know.
Perhaps they just like making people have to go to the dealer every time.
Doesn’t look like Land Rovers have come very far since my 1972 Series III Rover. But then the main indicator that worked properly was smoke coming from behind the dash. (Another Lucas connector loose.)
It did have an oil pressure gauge that usually read zero.
Buy an OBD scanner for $35 at the local Autozone or Pepboys.
Use it to see what code is being thrown, look it up on Google to see what it is and how serious. Then reset and erase the code to solve the problem in 95% of cases.
Sorry, but the “Powers That Be” have decided that the Check Engine Light should be a scary but non-descriptive warning. As the author noted, the Check Engine Light always has something to do with the emission system. The “Powers That Be” decided that they wanted the light to be scary in order to ensure you would take your car to the dealership to ensure that it would be properly fixed. I mean, it’s the most important “Thing On Your Car”, it’s the EMISSION SYSTEM.
My car says “Check has cap” kind of cool really
He’s stupid. If there was a light for every single possible thing the check engine light warns about we’d have a couple hundred lights in the dash that mostly never turned on. His problem isn’t with the light, it’s with him.
There is a device that you can borrow from a car part place. (like Auto Zone or Checkers), that you can plug in and find out what the problem is. Unless you live in California. In California you have to pay a mechanic to do it. Another reason why I don’t live in that state anymore.
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.
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.
This sounds like it was written by a woman who knows little about cars.
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.
Why do people buy those things? It has to be masochism.
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.”
What a whiner.
The light is to alert you of a minor problem with the engine or related systems. Worst case, you’re losing some gas mileage and/or not passing inspection because of some gubmint emission sensor. It is VERY unlikely your car will stop over a code with no other evidence of trouble. The temp and oil pressure gages are far more important.
If it’s a serious issue, you WILL know it immediately.
And the tire pressure sensor is just there for convenience to identify a slow leak. If you don’t like it, pull the bulb and check your tires manually every week like back in the good ole days.
Of course, anyone can use an OBD II scanner to pull the error codes to determine the reason why the check engine light illuminated, but then that would defeat the purpose behind writing such a dumb article.