My check engine light just turned on and need to have someone take a look. Any suggestions of places off Miami?

8/13/2006 7:16:04 PM

take it to autozone, get the code read first so you know kind of what the problem is.

[Edited on August 13, 2006 at 7:20 PM. Reason : get in the zone!]

8/13/2006 7:20:02 PM

Do they charge for that?

8/13/2006 7:20:56 PM

nope

8/13/2006 7:25:54 PM

Nice. Guess I will ask again in a few days when I figure out what is the problem.

8/13/2006 7:34:38 PM

what kind of car is it? there are two places on miami that i know of, one is a shop specializing in electrical work, the other is tire king. there is a place on chin page road that does general repair also.

my shop is about 4 miles from miami/us70

8/13/2006 9:27:00 PM

Honda Civic

8/13/2006 10:05:52 PM

i can fix it.

8/13/2006 11:17:36 PM

yeah go to autozone first, it's probably like an O2 sensor

8/14/2006 12:26:32 AM

Ding ding ding. O2 sensor. Should it really be failing with < 50K miles on it? What's a new one going to cost me?

8/16/2006 9:40:20 PM

Yeah, they can go bad at that kind of mileage. Really what happens is that they start to respond too slowly or maybe their response is out of range (or even occasionally out of range).

It's a situation that you don't need to rectify IMMEDIATELY...well, maybe that ain't so true. Reason being is that, if the precat O2 sensor is bad, then it can cause the air/fuel ratio to become overly rich and drastically shorten (read: melt the monolith inside) the life of the catalytic converter.

If it's the post-cat sensor, I wouldn't replace the damn thing until a month before my inspection is due.

Now, if it's either sensor's heater circuit, then I'd be tempted to leave the damn things alone until a month before inspection time. It ain't gonna hurt a thing.

[Edited on August 17, 2006 at 2:34 AM. Reason : ain't is a word according to the dictionary.]

8/17/2006 2:33:23 AM

So, I assume its too many miles for the warranty to cover? How much will this set me back? I still need to know a reputable place to get it done.

8/17/2006 8:52:41 AM

westgate import

off of westgate road

8/17/2006 6:12:22 PM