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Check Engine Lights – What They Do and Don’t Mean
It is Monday morning and you are already late for work. You hop in the car, “slightly” speed down the road to the freeway and…get in line for rush hour traffic. While you’re mumbling to yourself, you hear a ding and look at your dash. Great, the check engine light has come on. Just great!
The check engine light is the one glowing part of the dashboard that can make grown men weep like babies. This is due to the historical meaning of the light. When the check engine light first started appearing on the dashboard of cars, it was a harbinger of doom. When it lit up, it usually meant there was something severely wrong with the car and it was going to cost a bundle to get it fixed. Fortunately, this is not always the case any longer.
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