80,000 miles - Automatic Warning Light?
I have a class C Winnebago (Chalet). The "Check Engine" light came on almost exactly at 80,000 miles. Is this automatic? I had a Dodge pickup and that happened at 60K miles. (The AUTOMATIC light.) I m...
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According to Tom and Ray, the check engine light can come on to indicate the problem. If you don't do anything and there isn't a major problem, the next 2 or 3 times you start the engine, and it doesn't see the problem , the light should go out.
The code error is stored, so that if you go to a shop, they can still tell you why it came on even days later.
Now for the horror story. The reason for the info from them was the caller that had the light come on and they stopped. Fortunately for them it had indicated a problem with the alternator which was because the belt had come off. If they had kept on going, the engine would have frozen. You never know.
The code error is stored, so that if you go to a shop, they can still tell you why it came on even days later.
Now for the horror story. The reason for the info from them was the caller that had the light come on and they stopped. Fortunately for them it had indicated a problem with the alternator which was because the belt had come off. If they had kept on going, the engine would have frozen. You never know.
