If the battery light comes on while you are driving, your car is telling you the charging system has stopped doing its job. The battery is no longer being charged by the alternator, and the car is running on whatever charge is left in the battery. That can last twenty minutes or two hours, but
The TPMS light means one or more of your tires has dropped well below its correct pressure, usually by a quarter or more. TPMS stands for tire pressure monitoring system, and the light looks like a horseshoe shape with an exclamation mark inside. In most cases the fix is simple: check all four tires with
An airbag light that stays on means the car has found a fault in its airbag system, also called the SRS, and it has switched part or all of that system off to be safe. Your car will still drive perfectly normally, but in a crash the airbags may not deploy, or may deploy in
If your oil pressure light comes on while driving, treat it as an emergency, not a reminder. This light means […]
When a mechanic or a scanner tells you there is an unknown fault code stored in your car, it simply […]
The triangle with exclamation point in a car is a general warning light, and it means the car has detected […]
When the service ESC message appears on your dashboard, your car is telling you that its electronic stability control system […]
Learning how to reset check engine light warnings is simple with an inexpensive OBD2 scanner, but the honest answer comes […]
The oil change light is a maintenance reminder, not a fault warning. It comes on when your car’s computer calculates […]
The signs on dash panels follow a simple color code that every driver should know: red means stop and deal […]
