What Does the Check Engine Light Mean ?

Jennifer Weisgerber
1 min readJul 27, 2019

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The check engine light comes on to indicate a malfunction in the engine or the pollution control system. This can cause the engine power loss. In this case, it is necessary to stop the car immediately, because there is a risk of deterioration of the engine.

However, it may also happen that the malfunction indicator lights up following a false contact or a non-dangerous fault of the vehicle, for example.

The easiest way is to check what triggered the lighting of the light, to see if a possible fault is causing it or if it is a simple mistake.

To do this, you can contact a professional, who can proceed with the diagnosis and possibly repair this failure. The price varies between 50$ and 100$.

You can also purchase a diagnostics application that allows you to separate actual faults from non-hazardous display faults.

CarDiag Diagnose Your Car : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stom.cardiag
Torque OBD2 : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torque

So now you know everything :)

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