Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. You’re driving along in your car or truck and suddenly a yellow light illuminates on your dash telling you to check or ...

How to determine whether your car has a loose gas cap—or a serious engine problem This is what the check engine light looks ...

A. The reader writes that the yellow “check engine” light on the instrument panel of his 1983 Chevy Chevette has been lighting. A mechanic hooked it up to a diagnostic computer, but the computer ...

Three of the main reasons the check engine light or malfunction indicator lamp (MIL) turns on are: a loose fuel cap, issues with the ignition system, and problems with the emissions system. Many ...

The Territory has a yellow check-engine light just on the outside of the tachometer’s face, around the 2000rpm mark. Perhaps that’s what you saw flickering on. This is probably nothing to worry about ...

Q. My 1992 Ford Taurus wagon started flashing a yellow “check engine” on the dashboard when I was driving to New York from Chicago. It was Sunday and no Ford service facility was open. I kept driving ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. You’re driving along in your car or truck and suddenly a yellow light illuminates on your dash telling you to check or ...

Although commonly referred to as the “check-engine light,” some cars may instead display the message “Service Engine Soon,” or show a yellow or orange outline of an engine, perhaps with the word ...