"Check Engine" Light Came On. What Could It Be?

Toss zone pricing into the mix and you'd need a Cray computer to sort it all
out. In 25 miles, my trip to work, four Shell stations will vary up to 35¢
from top to bottom and they usually maintain the same differential between
them as prices change. On another route I frequent, three Mobile station on
a 12 mile stretch will vary 20¢.

 

Thanks everyone! The light didn't come on today either. I'll wait for it
to come back on before having it checked out. I hate to spend the money
until I really have to. I hope that logic does backfire though!!

Wishing all of you very Happy Holidays!

 

I'm guessing you really meant NJ, and not NY. It's certainly not forbidden
to pump your own in NY - in fact it's flat out hard to find any full service
stations in NY.

 

I'm not sure I'd want to live in a town where the general population
wasn't smart enough to operate a gas pump.


Matt

 

That may be. I'm aware NJ has such a law, but then NJ is a pretty
stupid and corrupt state. I know that at least the parts of NY near
where I live have no problem at all with self-serve stations.

Matt

 

In NJ self serve is illegal - I got chewed out by a pump jockey. ; -)

NY can only be downstate. Upstate it's hard to get pump help unless
you are disabled or really like to pay for the priveledge.

 

I'll pick one up next chance I get.

Chris

 

Yes, should have been NJ. I think someone rearranged the keyboard on me.

 

Well... it is the People's Republic of Massachusetts he's talking about
after all.

 

LOL. You don't know many people personally, do you?

 

NJ and Oregon are the only two states left that forbid self-service. With
that said, I've lived in NJ all of my driving life and have never had
someone pump my gas for me. If I am at a new station, I usually ask the
attendent first and have never been told no.

As to the "stupid and corrupt" portion of your post, yes, we have stupid
and corrupt people here. Collectively, however, I would bet dollars to
doughnuts that NJ probably has the highest IQ out of the 50 states. Maybe
California would beat us, but not by much. The corruption is everywhere.
NJ just has a more effective way of flushing them out and reporting about
it in the news than other states do.

Matt's self-inflated IQ at least pulls the state of PA up around a good,
solid 80 or so.

Eric

 

I know a lot and I only know a couple that can't or won't pump their own
gas.

Matt

 

I was talking about the government as that is what makes the stupid laws.

But since you've stooped to personal insults, maybe my statement does
apply to the populace more broadly than just the politicians. Last IQ
test I had placed me in the top 1% of the population. Where do you rank?

Matt

 

Any of the large autopart stores will read the codes for free. Your car is
kinda old so you may have trouble finding one to do it, but it's worth a
try.

 

However, don't always trust their readings. I had Autozone read my
minivan and they read the last code that had fired from a few weeks
earlier, not the code that was current. They would have had me replace
a sensor that I had just replaced a couple of weeks earlier when, in
fact, the problem was something totally different.

I'd rather pay a real garage a few bucks to get it right.


Matt