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Half the time there’s a light on my car, it’s a damn sensor! More components mean more points of failure.
by goalieca 4y ago
Half the time there’s a light on my car, it’s a damn sensor! More components mean more points of failure.
- bookofjoe 4y agoCheck Engine Light being on comes standard
- bityard 4y agoMechanics call this the money light. :)
- bookofjoe 4y agoIndeed. When I took my car in last winter because the light had come on for no apparent reason, as the car was running fine, they charged me $140 to take it out on the road to try to find the reason. No reason was found. Two weeks later, the light came on again (towards the end of 2022). The car was and is running fine. The light will remain on until July when I take it in for a scheduled oil change.
- generalizations 4y agoOr you could buy a $20 code reader and see what's causing the light yourself.
- bookofjoe 4y agoBut the mechanics using their professional grade code reader and related equipment couldn't figure out what's causing it. At least I'm comfortable with "unknown" after that's their diagnosis; I don't think that would be the case if I did it and got that result.
- bityard 4y agoSounds like it was an intermittent fault? If so, those are notoriously hard for any mechanic to diagnose. Cars _usually_ store code history but it's up to the manufacturer and often the data they provide to the mechanic with a scan tool is misleading or an outright pack of lies.