check engine light
weird thing happened to my 98 Accord LX. While driving I noticed a
considerable decline in acceleration and the car seemed sluggish, moments later my check engine light started flashing. Lucking I was a couple of miles away from work. I visually checked the engine.. didn't see anything bad or damaged, then I check the oil and it seemed very low to me. I added 2 quarts and since then it has been running fine. However the check engine light is still on.. I called Honda and they said I needed to bring it in and that the check engine light had nothing to do with oil.. Any suggestions?? |
Re: check engine light
Perhaps the dealer meant that the oil light is supposed to come on if
there was a serious low oil pressure thing happening, not the Check Engine Light (CEL). You didn't have that happen though. You need to get the Trouble Code (TC) off your car's computer and see exactly what is turning the CEL on. Remember, what turns it on is usually related to emissions but there ARE other things that can be wrong that do NOT turn the CEL on. Further, there may be OTHER codes (stored) on there you can retrieve...the ones that didn't light the CEL, which my be clues, too. Still, IF you check your oil regularly, a sudden two quarts low is very unusual, to say the least. Then again, I remember a few times in the last 30 years when I checked the oil in my '73 Datsun and NOTHING showed on the dipstick at all...put some oil in and all was well. Still is. If you take it in to the dealer, they may charge you $75 or so just to read the code and tell you what it is. Consequently, you might FIRST take it to AutoZone since they often will read it for free...then you can decide where to go from there, to the dealer or fix the problem yourself. Good luck, John D. "johnjack" <not@this.com> wrote in message news:<O15Ma.2251$Xm3.461@sccrnsc02>... > weird thing happened to my 98 Accord LX. While driving I noticed a > considerable decline in acceleration and the car seemed sluggish, moments > later my check engine light started flashing. Lucking I was a couple of > miles away from work. > > I visually checked the engine.. didn't see anything bad or damaged, then I > check the oil and it seemed very low to me. I added 2 quarts and since then > it has been running fine. However the check engine light is still on.. I > called Honda and they said I needed to bring it in and that the check engine > light had nothing to do with oil.. Any suggestions?? |
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