• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    ABS = All Basic Systems, that means everything is good to go.

    The tire with the two arrows means the steering is properly centered.

    The gas pump means the fuel is of the right octane.

    Apparently, your in-car drinking fountain is working just fine.

    Your car has an engine, I’ve read that’s important, so good there.

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    The odds that all of those are true at the same time are extremely low:

    • Check engine
    • Check brakes
    • Low washer fluid
    • Low fuel
    • Low tire pressure

    More likely, this is a short in the gauge cluster or its wiring, or a bad ECU (possibly some other module depending on the car).

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      Or this car was just turned on and the photo was taken during the car starting up where all the lights come on at the same time.

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        Which is an important thing to check for, if you ever buy a used car. Some not-so-honest used car dealerships sell cars which have persistent ECU faults - which would result in a check engine light. To prevent the buyers from seeing these they just snip off the check engines LED from the instrument cluster board.

        Here in Germany, there have been several fraud cases where car dealers don’t actually own the cars they’re selling. Instead, they’re selling them on consignment for someone else. That means when you buy the car, you don’t really know who the actual seller is, as the dealer just can say “ah, sorrybI didn’t know about that” . It’s a strange setup — and quite risky for the buyer, because it makes it hard to any legal rights if something goes wrong.

        Btw these cars frequently are from salvage auctions in the us, then sent to eastern Europe to be fixed up so they look good from the outside and last being sold on small “used car” dealer lots as “pigs with lipstick”.

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        That is even more likely. I failed to get my head outside of the scenario as presented.

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      It’s quite possible, low tyre pressure can cause wheel speeds to be different, which will cause an ABS fault. Low fuel and washer fluid is self explanatory, and the check engine light could be a lot of things.

      This is probably taken during the self check on startup though.

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        lol, no.

        Planes, Trains, & Automobiles is an American Thanksgiving movie and Thanksgiving is next month, so that’s probably why so many are thinking about it again.

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    you paid money for that car so you better be getting your moneys worth by getting every single light to turn on or else you’d be wasting the bulbs

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    Been there, seen that. Happened when I had the family in car, in the middle of the motorway. I barely managed to get through the trucks onto the hard shoulder…

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      Careful with that though, the blinker fluid indicator is not displaying, you might start a fire if you dehydrate and cocoon them!

      My old man shared me this trick you can use in a pinch when you’re low on blinker fluid: Salt water.

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    There’s only two issue here: you’re running out of fuel, and your tyre are too shy 👉👈