Posted on 8/6/2019
Your check engine light comes on. Panic sets in. What do you do? You call the shop, dreading what they are going to say. "What do you charge for diagnsotics?" you ask. "Testing starts at $95 for a check engine light" the service advisor responds. GASP. Why so much? Can't I just go to AutoZoom down the street for a free test? Here's what you're paying for: "For example, the P0503 code, which indicates a malfunctioning vehicle speed sensor, has forty-one steps spanning eleven pages in a shop manual after the code has been set. Examining those forty-one steps takes time and expertise to examine" The code pull is just the first step. The rest of the story happens while we test different sensors and systems to find out which one is the culprit. The sensors are dumb, they report what they see, not what the cause is. You may have an oxygen sensor that is reading out of range, but is that because the sensor is ... read more