Check engine light
Check engine light
What exactly does the check engine light indicate? Anyone know?
My check engine light turns on sometimes when I come home from work. But then it turns off after a while...What's up?
My check engine light turns on sometimes when I come home from work. But then it turns off after a while...What's up?
Lead Lap
Joined: May 2001
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From: Arkansas
Mine does as well. Comes on after about 1500 miles after an oil change. I check everything that I can check, and its gone. Nothing is low, and nothing that I can see without a diagnosis machine is wrong. Glitch? O2 sensors going out? I think they need to be changed, I average around 250-290 miles a tank, but that is tight city driving, LOTS of stop and go, as well as short city blocks.
Lexus Champion
Joined: Feb 2001
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From: Las Vegas, NV
The problem is stored in the computer. To check it use a paper clip stick in the E1 and TE1 (I think) of the ALDL. Its the round thing above your left knee. Open the cap and you'll see the port for E1 and TE1.
Check the engine section. I already post how to check the code for the engine check light many times there.
Check the engine section. I already post how to check the code for the engine check light many times there.
Last edited by VQT; Jan 30, 2002 at 12:00 PM.
Pole Position
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From: Sunny Southern New England
Check Engine Light can come on due to low oil level in the sump, also for many various sensor feedbacks. The Repair Manuals have an exhaustive flowchart for problem determination. I do not have the manuals here with me as I am on the road setting up for the Superbowl.
Pole Position
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Re: Check engine light
Originally posted by howiedoit
What exactly does the check engine light indicate? Anyone know?
My check engine light turns on sometimes when I come home from work. But then it turns off after a while...What's up?
What exactly does the check engine light indicate? Anyone know?
My check engine light turns on sometimes when I come home from work. But then it turns off after a while...What's up?
Lead Lap
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 780
Likes: 2
From: Arkansas
Yeah, I bought books. $600 worth, a week ago. It is a college town's legal way to launder money. Buy the book for $120, sell it back for 40. They sell it used for $100. Buy it back for 35, and so on. I swear, the mob has their hands in this racket. If you find a class book, by all means, sell that honey.
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Lexus Champion
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Man o' man, am I feelin' you on that one, cam. In college we used to call the few days everyone went to buy books 'extorsion week,' but the campus was right next to Oak Street, a well-known NY spot, quarter mile marked off right across the street with spray paint, cops kept removing it, guys kept painting it back on. A good night on Oak street, and i'd have an entire semester's books paid for, so you could technically say that Hofstra University was part of a criminal enterprise, the more they raised book prices, the more I was forced to race. Jack McCoy could argue that one.
P.S. - You'll roll when you hear this, they used to do unscheduled dorm inspections, I would come back from classes or work and find that they had stumbled upon my spare nitrous bottle, confiscated it, and charged me a juicy fine for 'improper chemicals.'
Happened a couple times, I went down to Campus Public Safety and tried to explain to them that there was no danger, since I had emptied the bottle the night before, but they didn't see the humor in that.
P.S. - You'll roll when you hear this, they used to do unscheduled dorm inspections, I would come back from classes or work and find that they had stumbled upon my spare nitrous bottle, confiscated it, and charged me a juicy fine for 'improper chemicals.'
Happened a couple times, I went down to Campus Public Safety and tried to explain to them that there was no danger, since I had emptied the bottle the night before, but they didn't see the humor in that.
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