Comments on: Go figure. http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Mark http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608/comment-page-1#comment-1979 Mark Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:14:30 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608#comment-1979 PS - If you know someone in the SF Bay Area who wants a truck with 228,000 miles on it, let me know. They can have it cheap! LOL PS – If you know someone in the SF Bay Area who wants a truck with 228,000 miles on it, let me know. They can have it cheap! LOL

]]> By: Mark http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608/comment-page-1#comment-1978 Mark Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:12:39 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608#comment-1978 Meryl - In all probability, the leaning had nothing to do with clearing the code. My last truck had the "check engine" light come on at about 60,000 miles and, after taking it to the mechanic twice and no problem found, I was assured by him that I should ignore it. This is the same advice I've gotten from others. The light tends to come on intermittently when the vehicles with those computer "brains" get older, even if nopthing is really wrong. 228,000 miles later, that truck is still sitting in front of my house, and still runs like a champ. And the light still comes on periodically. You need to find a reputable mechanic, one to go to and get a rapport with. $80.00 sounds steep for just checking it out and I live just north of SF. Mechanics are high here. Good luck. Meryl – In all probability, the leaning had nothing to do with clearing the code.

My last truck had the “check engine” light come on at about 60,000 miles and, after taking it to the mechanic twice and no problem found, I was assured by him that I should ignore it. This is the same advice I’ve gotten from others. The light tends to come on intermittently when the vehicles with those computer “brains” get older, even if nopthing is really wrong.

228,000 miles later, that truck is still sitting in front of my house, and still runs like a champ. And the light still comes on periodically.

You need to find a reputable mechanic, one to go to and get a rapport with. $80.00 sounds steep for just checking it out and I live just north of SF. Mechanics are high here.

Good luck.

]]> By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608/comment-page-1#comment-1971 Meryl Yourish Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:59:11 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608#comment-1971 The computer code said it was a hose problem. They checked every hose in my engine and found nothing. I have a sneaking suspicion it's related to my having told them not to change my air filter and charge me thirty bucks for it, then putting the dirty one back on because they were not expecting that response from me, and my not having gotten to replacing the dirty air filter yet. It's going on today. Then we'll see if the light comes back. Off to my boring in-service training session. The computer code said it was a hose problem. They checked every hose in my engine and found nothing.

I have a sneaking suspicion it’s related to my having told them not to change my air filter and charge me thirty bucks for it, then putting the dirty one back on because they were not expecting that response from me, and my not having gotten to replacing the dirty air filter yet. It’s going on today. Then we’ll see if the light comes back.

Off to my boring in-service training session.

]]> By: Cynic http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608/comment-page-1#comment-1969 Cynic Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:06:46 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608#comment-1969 For eighty bucks the mechanic, on not finding a faulty component, should have checked why the light came on in the first place. Maybe it is the "cutting-edge" technology that is faulty - short? For eighty bucks the mechanic, on not finding a faulty component, should have checked why the light came on in the first place.
Maybe it is the “cutting-edge” technology that is faulty – short?

]]> By: The Doctor http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608/comment-page-1#comment-1967 The Doctor Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:42:31 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608#comment-1967 And when next leaving the car level, the light comes back on, right? As the Car Talk guys would say, just because the symptom went away don't mean the underlying problem did... And when next leaving the car level, the light comes back on, right?

As the Car Talk guys would say, just because the symptom went away don’t mean the underlying problem did…

]]> By: Walter E. Wallis http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608/comment-page-1#comment-1965 Walter E. Wallis Sun, 15 Jan 2006 06:11:01 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/14/608#comment-1965 Next, a voice prompt in plain language describing the problem and suggesting a correction. Ain't engineering grand? Next, a voice prompt in plain language describing the problem and suggesting a correction. Ain’t engineering grand?

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