15
Showerthought: A customer in Tulsa last month told me his 'check engine light is just the car's way of saying hello' and refused the diag.
He drove off with a P0304 code, and I'm still wondering how many shops just clear the code and send it back out the door without explaining the actual cylinder misfire risk.
3 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In3 Comments
hunt.rowan1mo ago
Damn, that's a whole different level of denial. How many times did you actually try to tell him a misfire can ruin his catalytic converter before he drove off? That's the part that always gets me - customers think it's just a light but don't realize a cylinder misfire can cost them fifteen hundred bucks in parts and labor a few months later if they ignore it long enough.
3
margaret_nelson3mo ago
That's a scary way to think about a warning light. Clearing the code without fixing the real problem just kicks the can down the road until something really breaks.
1
sarahsullivan3mo ago
Ugh, exactly. See this everywhere now. People just silencing alarms instead of dealing with the actual issue. It's like putting tape over a smoke detector because the beeping is annoying. Makes a small fix turn into a huge, expensive mess later.
-2