"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
12/15/2016 at 10:34 • Filed to: None
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"Dave the car guy , still here" (a3dave)
12/15/2016 at 10:34 • Filed to: None | 5
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For the second time in two months we’ve had a customer need an engine because they ignored an oil light. This last one was towed in yesterday after a woman and her husband ignored a light for an entire month. They had driven a 100k+ miles vehicle for an extra 6k miles past the oil change time. They starved the engine of oil and toasted it. The irony here is we owed them a free oil change at my work.
They must have been going by this warning chart instead of the correct one.
jimz
> Dave the car guy , still here
12/15/2016 at 10:37 |
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haha. “This.”
random001
> Dave the car guy , still here
12/15/2016 at 10:43 |
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Your post is truth in all but one sense. The TPMS light after swapping to winters is, indeed, just for decoration.
TysMagic
> Dave the car guy , still here
12/15/2016 at 10:44 |
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all the doors are open you idiot made my lol in the actual out loud fashion
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> random001
12/15/2016 at 10:45 |
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But does it got WOO-WOO?
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Dave the car guy , still here
> random001
12/15/2016 at 10:47 |
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I have the luxury of a TPMS reset switch on the dash of my A3. Never seen any other Audi or VW with the feature but I love it.
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random001
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12/15/2016 at 10:47 |
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Sadly, no...
bhtooefr
> Dave the car guy , still here
12/15/2016 at 10:54 |
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That’ll be for the ABS-based TPMS system that they used, that basically just compares wheel speeds.
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random001
> Dave the car guy , still here
12/15/2016 at 10:56 |
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My only luxury is knowing I can ignore it. Forunately, the Genesis has kind of a muted orange, low intensity TPMS light. Not the blaring death eye many cars have.
Cé hé sin
> Dave the car guy , still here
12/15/2016 at 12:18 |
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A colleague of mine noticed that a little light had come on. He had choices:
- (a) find out what it meant and take action as appropriate
- (b) ignore it. What could go wrong? It’s just a little light. It wasn’t as if the engine was going to seize because it had burnt up all its oil, was it?
(b) happened.
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Dave the car guy , still here
> Cé hé sin
12/15/2016 at 12:30 |
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Why am I not surprised? Its like the “Big Band Theory” episode where Penny had been ignoring the check engine light until the car died.
Trevor Slattery, ACTOR
> Dave the car guy , still here
12/15/2016 at 12:49 |
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I will never get this. I explained it to my son’s who are new to driving.
“There are certain things where you pull over immediately and stop the car:
Temp gauge goes all the way to the right.
The oil can light comes on.”
kiwi_matt
> Cé hé sin
12/15/2016 at 12:54 |
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Oil? What is that?
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Dave the car guy , still here
12/16/2016 at 09:27 |
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my SRS one is.
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Dave the car guy , still here
> pip bip - choose Corrour
12/16/2016 at 09:38 |
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lol, Honda?
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> Dave the car guy , still here
12/16/2016 at 09:44 |
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2004 Mitsubishi Lancer
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Dave the car guy , still here
> pip bip - choose Corrour
12/16/2016 at 09:48 |
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Same issue with Takata. I have one of the few Audi with one. Notified in spring of the recall but waiting on Audi to get the inflator still. On my model I was told they gave up on Takata and are getting them tooled up , made and tested by one of the worlds other inflator manufacturers. Told I should see one next year sometime.
http://www.mitsubishicars.com/recall