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    [–] cm0002 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Windows warning is like the check engine light in your car, ignore till it starts being a problem lmao

    [–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    For the record, if your check engine light is ever blinking, you need to immediately shut off your engine.

    Shit is going very very wrong in your engine at that point, to the extent that it might cause an energetic catastrophic failure.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Interesting, I've never heard of that. What does it blinking signify?

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    In my case it meant the cilinders were scrapping against the block with zero lube

    [–] AlpacaChariot 3 points 6 months ago

    My wife hates it when that happens

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    It can mean a misfire too.

    I had an old accord that basically lost a cylinder (blew a valve or something) but could still drive down the road with check engine blinking because that cylinder was “misfiring.”

    It happened far away from home too. I drove several dozen miles with my unintentional 3 cylinder swap.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

    To be fair, it can also mean "one of my fucking radiator fans is not responding quickly enough to computer control"

    Which was not a fun experience when that happened to me, full fucking BEEP BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER with a check engine and a STOP sign blaring on the digital system display panel, made me panic out of my mind because a radiator fan was a removed

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    Imminent catastrophic failure.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    Misfiring in my experience

    [–] SkyJuice 1 points 6 months ago

    Typically it'll happen when your engine misfires due to an ignition coil crapping out. So the engine is now firing on only 3 cylinders if it's a 4cyl

    [–] Sylvartas 6 points 6 months ago

    So you're telling me I should just turn up the volume instead of fixing my install ?