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The oil pressure light is by far the scariest one.
100%. Check engine light can mean a bunch of pretty minor things. Oil pressure? Stop the car. Stop the car NOW. You’re gonna have to pay for a tow and repair, but if you don’t stop RIGHT NOW you’re going to need a new car. Or at least a new engine.
I cast mend butt crack followed by diarrhea
Got a OBD reader for 40 bucks and it takes a lot of the stress off. Highly recommend to anyone who doesn’t have one yet. You can look up the code, and usually that steers you to what part you need. Saves time, money, and stress.
Or you can also go to any auto parts store and they’ll do an OBD reading for you for free and give you a printout of the code.
Forty bucks is a ripoff. I got a Bluetooth one for like 10.
I’ve had good luck on Android with these, but I’ve had no luck getting two different ones to connect to iOS for some reason, and they even boldly claim iOS compatibility right on the unit. I just grab my old Android when I need to check it.
It’s a Bluetooth incompatibility. There’s something wrong with most scanners and how they support Bluetooth Low Energy.
I bought this scanner in 2020 and the one I bought then has worked fine across two different iOS phones.
Seconded the Veepeak. It’s still an ELM327 clone but a high quality one so if you get one that says it supports BTLE, it works on IOS. Mine does.
$2.65, but I’m sure it’s proprietary app is snooping, so I just use an old phone when I have to check anything out.
Pay $5 for the Torque app.
There wasn’t a proprietary app that I can recall, and +1 on Torque that’s what I use
Lol, seems I already had it purchased. I’ll be honest, I haven’t used the little blue guy in years after getting a newish Avalon.
Yeah this is front of mind for me lately because I need to figure out where mine is now that the 40mpg grocery getter is throwing a code
Usually they have a standard chip like an ELM327 clone (basically all the cheap ones) so you can use any app
Here they charge you for the readout 🙂
Well that’s not very nice.
If $40 is too much for you, Auto Zone, Advance Auto Parts, and O’Reillys all have free code readers you can use. If your car can make it there.
Yeah, mine just started nagging me about some emissions bull shit as soon as it rolled over to 100,000 miles.
I drive a Toyota,
I drive an EV. I have no engine.
I only have a bike. Completely immune.
Not immune to Ford trucks I tell you what.
Is that a threat?
Engine and motor are synonyms. Broadly speaking, newer technology gets called motor to differentiate it from older technology.
See steam engine. Motor car. Etc.
And yeah, electric motors have fuck all to go wrong. Love my EV.
(Sorry for being a pedant)
Even electic motors have an optimal operating temp, but its not as detrimental to run outside it
HA! Jeep drivers will tell you that light just means everything is functioning as normal.
Yep. Now when the fuel light turns on. Tears
Had a car, that got like 5 yellow engine lights in 6 months… I had the car so I could get to work, in the end I had the work so I could pay for repairs on the car…
These wizards are getting too overpowered.
Literaly happened to me tonight. I’m supposed to sell the car tomorrow. Peak comedy.
Marker pen over the light and they won’t know any difference.
Eh I’d just clear it. Should be enough for a day lol
My dog cast that today.
She had bloody poop and couldn’t stand.
So I’m here.
Waiting on a phone call from the emergency vet.If you own a used car or is getting ready to purchase one, buy yourself an obd2 scanner. You can avoid making a bad purchase or getting scammed by a mechanic when it is something you can easily fix yourself.
And if you are truly broke, you can at least determine if the check engine is something you should addressed immediately or wait a couple weeks.
It never occurred to me I could just buy my own in lieu of the weekly trips to auto zone. Do you have any brand recommendations (only what to stay away from)?
I bought a OBDLink Mx a long time ago and it has worked on every car i have had to diagnose. (Mercedes, Skoda, VW, SAAB, Porsche)
Veepeak and obdlink are good generic ones in my experience, BimmerLink even recommends a specific obdlink one for example, think it has an STN2120 rather than the usual ELM327 clone chips and thus is a bit higher quality, but for most cars and most apps, the ELM based ones work.
If you use or might one day want to use IOS, get one with BT LE support and connect via app, not the Bluetooth menu. If you do, you’ll have to restart the phone to get it to show up again, stupid iOS thing.
I’ve had a couple of these (with different branding): https://ebay.io/m/UJMLDM
Despite the name they’re not that durable, the first one I had rattled apart after a few years, but at that price idgaf. It’s Bluetooth so you need to install a companion app. It’s only obd2 though, it won’t read any fancy proprietary make-specific codes.
My car gets angery when I plug in my cheapo Bluetooth OBD2 thingy. Like “ESD service required” angery and I have to unplug the thingy and restart the car to clear it.
Totally fine after that.
Is my Bluetooth thingy too cheapo?
My previous car didn’t care at all. It was older though and didn’t have ESD and all that.
Edit for future travelers:
I looked it up and yes it looks like (especially) cheap ones can interfere. It seems the likelihood of it actually breaking something is low but bad quality wiring in cheap electronics can be a factor in these “ghost problems”.
Or if your car is old enough, and you don’t mind investing some cash, you might find the official diagnostics equipment available on eBay.
With a bit of hacking about you can program new keys, train in new parts etc etc.
Joke’s on you. The porch pirate that stole my replacement GPU ruined my day before you even got here!
Buy an OBD reader from China. They’re cheap and allow you to read what is wrong with your car. Afterwards you can decide if you fix the issue yourself or let an expensive garage do it.
I got one, swapped a part myself, realized that wasn’t it, went to my mechanic, and he fixed it just by guessing lol
But yea they are useful so you at least know the exact codes that you fixed
Your local library may also have one you can borrow if it has a library of things. It a pretty cool.
me: wow some money left over, finally.
the steed:
My bike is immune
I cast run over by self driving car
(Hope n ot)
Thar be what the 2nd is for
I cast: Electrical tape over the fucking light 🖕🏻
Bro casted counterspell and won the duel (until next long rest)
