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I pasted the only section speaking to handling the check engine light, it's not cherry-picked. If you read my comment, it clearly states that few parts of the

I pasted the only section speaking to handling the check engine light, it's not cherry-picked. If you read my comment, it clearly states that few parts of the manual explicitly recommend towing. But some do, and none of them are surrounding CELs. Which makes it rather clear that a CEL condition doesn't warrant an immediate tow, unlike the brake system light or dangerous tire wear/damage where they do recommend a tow. A charitable interpretation of my comment would accept that nowhere else was there a section about blinking lights recommending towing. Grasping at straws? Are you kidding? You suggested I look in an owners manual, that's precisely what I did, and you're unhappy with what it states. Instead of making me do the legwork of disproving your claim, the onus is really on you to back it up so why don't you materialize an owners' manual explicitly recommending towing when a check engine light starts flashing? > no wonder they had to add the blinking failure mode, there's truly irresponsible people out there I don't appreciate your borderline personal attack, are you implying I'm an irresponsible person?

LoSboccacc 7y ago
I don't understand where I lost you. facts are quite clear, let's recap I talked about blinking lights your car doesn't have the blinking mode for engine check I and another commenter both explained that blinking lights were specifically added to disambiguate between critical and non critical issues these issue are deemed critical specifically because they are immediate danger of engine damage blinking lights were specifically added because people were ignoring static check lights your vintage car comes from an era before the disambiguations, fair enough, still not the common case today. the respondible thing to do if your car passes the fuel and fuel cap test is to stop it and call a tow truck, specifically because as the manual started the light cover issues that might cause an engine seizure. it's likely my fault for not disambiguating towing and tow truck early in the discussion, we have two different words for that here. (traino vs rimorchio)

LoSboccacc 7y ago

I don't understand where I lost you. facts are quite clear, let's recap I talked about blinking lights your car doesn't have the blinking mode for engine check I and another commenter both explained that blinking lights were specifically added to disambiguate between critical and non critical issues these issue are deemed critical specifically because they are immediate danger of engine damage blinking lights were specifically added because people were ignoring static check lights your vintage car comes from an era before the disambiguations, fair enough, still not the common case today. the respondible thing to do if your car passes the fuel and fuel cap test is to stop it and call a tow truck, specifically because as the manual started the light cover issues that might cause an engine seizure. it's likely my fault for not disambiguating towing and tow truck early in the discussion, we have two different words for that here. (traino vs rimorchio)