So I had to make a short trip (~7 miles on-way) and about 1/3 of the trip I hear the alert tone sound. My immediate thought was that my fuel level wasn't that low but when my eyes dropped to the dash I saw the Check Gages light illuminated.
In 20 plus years of driving I have never seen this light come on in any of my vehicles. CEL, yep. But never this.
So I started looking at the gauges. Everything looked fine. No spikes in readings, nothing out of the ordinary. I was confused. My driving was not outside the norm nor were the conditions. I decided to keep going - if a gauge wasn't properly reporting the actual reading then I wouldn't figure it out stopped on the side of the road.
Then I came to my first stop light and the light went out. It came back on a little after I started driving again. I made my destination with no issues.
When I left I noticed that the tripmeter had reset to zero miles. No Check Gauges light came on during the return journey.
I just took it out again for a 20 mile round trip run with no issues at all.
So, was this a fluke or something that may indicate a problem that is slowly brewing?
In 20 plus years of driving I have never seen this light come on in any of my vehicles. CEL, yep. But never this.
So I started looking at the gauges. Everything looked fine. No spikes in readings, nothing out of the ordinary. I was confused. My driving was not outside the norm nor were the conditions. I decided to keep going - if a gauge wasn't properly reporting the actual reading then I wouldn't figure it out stopped on the side of the road.
Then I came to my first stop light and the light went out. It came back on a little after I started driving again. I made my destination with no issues.
When I left I noticed that the tripmeter had reset to zero miles. No Check Gauges light came on during the return journey.
I just took it out again for a 20 mile round trip run with no issues at all.
So, was this a fluke or something that may indicate a problem that is slowly brewing?
