Car Trouble

I looked it up on the Internet and for your car it means the flux-capacitor needs to be re-calibrationized to match the spin of your vulcanator.

Or you need to flush out the fallopian tubes, adjust the left fetzer valve, and top off the blinker fluid.

It might also be a chipped uterus.

Hehe .. a friend and I joked about this, then a few weeks later I stopped hearing my blinkers.

I took it into the shop - mainly for other things - but I mentioned this and they fixed my front speakers!?!

What did it end up being?? Yeah a check engine light (CEL) can mean any number of things, MOST of which aren't so pressing you have to stop driving. If it's something bad, it will be accompanied by bad noise and or feel. I have a reader, I have a CEL on now for a PCV valve, I went to fix it a couple weeks ago and no one had it in stock so I'm just living with it for now until I have to go through emissions. My dad has a car which has been throwing intermittent CEL codes for a bad cat (or 2...) and he's also just sitting on it. You prob won't have to put TOO much money into it if it's otherwise running well.

Let us know what the problem ended up being!! I'm curious!

JUST noticed you're in CA.... Yeah if it's emissions (PCV valve, EGR valve, Cat....) they're gonna make you fix it FAST there.... CA has the strictest emissions laws in the country....

It's my starter.

Aw, sorry to hear that. May not be bad depending on the vehicle, but either way, it's not like a $20 fix... I have done a few starters, one in a parking lot LoL, but one of my cars I had a few years back that was AWD had a starter go bad.... I was gonna do it since I had done them in other cars..... but I couldn't FIND it! I looked online and every pic people posted for location was an engine that was not in the car..... That was one I left for the pros.

I hate the computerization of the automobile's engine compartment. And even worse are the plastic hoods and shields that don't even let you SEE the engine anymore!!!

There was a time when a guy could pop the hood and fix a problem. Now, most guys would need a hint, before they could even pop the hood!!!!

There was a time one could pop the hood, climb in the engine compartment and close the hood and still work on the car!

A lady I know who's into 50s Chevy's (she has a 55) has a few pics of her IN the engine compartment doing things!! I think she was hooking everything back up after a swap in one of the pics!!

The "Check Engine" light can come on for just about anything. O2 sensor, Gas cap not tight, then turn off randomly. Take it to AutoZone and have them check it for FREE.

J.R.