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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The check engine light. Is not that supposed to be covered up with a piece of black electrician’s tape?
Thats Racist
It is more a range rover thing as opposed to an engine light thing
I can fix 90% of my car problems with electrical tape or by turning up the radio volume
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.
My bad — what was I thinking!
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.
/johnny
Honda is pretty close............
Yes.
Either that, or if one has a bit more time on one’s hands, one can access the instrument cluster and remove the bulb from the check engine light socket.
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 Highlander did the loose gascap thing to me once! My mechanic plugged in his tester and told me to tighten the cap. Thing is, once I pulled out go a gas station and had completely forgotten to put the cap back on! Guess what? No warning light!
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.
No. The black tape is to cover up the “time to shift” light on my old Rabbit. What a P.I.T.A.
Or just google your car and “check engine”, this will result in you finding a page that tells you your car’s “konami code” that’ll set your light blinking, and a list you can decypher the blinks with.
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