Are vehicle trouble codes a scam, brehs?

[Geek Nasty]

I used to have an old F-150 and I got this error code about emissions. I looked it up and found out it wasn't shyt to worry about, so I drove on it for damned near a year. It was a shyt work truck so I didn't care if it blew up. The replacement part was $100+ but I found a cheap one online.

Fast forward about 5 years or so and I buy another cheap work SUV for hauling shyt, and after maybe 10 months I get the SAME emissions error code. Exact same one on a different vehicle and maybe 2 weeks after taking it to a shop for $1200 in repairs

So, I head over to O'Reillys and they sell me this $120 part that I'm about to throw in, but the kid selling it makes a point about how I can return it if I don't need it. Way he said it sounded suspect as fukk

So, I head home and start googling that shyt like crazy. Find out the error code *MIGHT* be thrown by a faulty part, but it can also be thrown by a low battery

Sure enough, turns out it's a battery issue. Now, I'm wondering if either that mechanic was trying to get my ass back in the shop fukkign with my car or if those trouble codes are shady as fukk. I can imagine some woman who doens't want to fukk around under the hood taking her car in and getting taken to the cleaners.

Get your hands greasy, brehs

 

[Strapped]

Mechanics ,dentist,plumbers ,electrician are all crooks

 

[666 ReVeNGe 666]

I used to have an old F-150 and I got this error code about emissions. I looked it up and found out it wasn't shyt to worry about, so I drove on it for damned near a year. It was a shyt work truck so I didn't care if it blew up. The replacement part was $100+ but I found a cheap one online.

Fast forward about 5 years or so and I buy another cheap work SUV for hauling shyt, and after maybe 10 months I get the SAME emissions error code. Exact same one on a different vehicle and maybe 2 weeks after taking it to a shop for $1200 in repairs

So, I head over to O'Reillys and they sell me this $120 part that I'm about to throw in, but the kid selling it makes a point about how I can return it if I don't need it. Way he said it sounded suspect as fukk

So, I head home and start googling that shyt like crazy. Find out the error code *MIGHT* be thrown by a faulty part, but it can also be thrown by a low battery

Sure enough, turns out it's a battery issue. Now, I'm wondering if either that mechanic was trying to get my ass back in the shop fukkign with my car or if those trouble codes are shady as fukk. I can imagine some woman who doens't want to fukk around under the hood taking her car in and getting taken to the cleaners.

Get your hands greasy, brehs

They're real and Convent

But...a shop will snake you if you're dumb

Mine came on for emissions...turns out my gas cap was loose

I figured out out because I didn't tighten fully after a drunken night

Dude tried to tell me to leave it and they'll diagnose it. Pep boys scanners.

He said it wasn't a code related to gas cap.

I Google it and gas cap issues came up first

 

[DrexlersFade]

Mechanics ,dentist,plumbers ,electrician are all crooks

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My girl went to go get her wheels align 74 dollars told me these nikkas put it up on the lift and start talking all this crazy shyt. Now it was gonna cost 269.

nikka I said align my wheels fukk what you talking about.


My Uncle a mechanic Fuel system cleaning another ripoff nikkas charge 80 dollars my Uncle sells me the bottle they use for 35 dollars. He said you gotta have a dealers liscence to get it as the product is not on the market and it only cost 30 bucks

 

[Geek Nasty]

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My girl went to go get her wheels align 74 dollars told me these nikkas put it up on the lift and start talking all this crazy shyt. Now it was gonna cost 269.

nikka I said align my wheels fukk what you talking about.


My Uncle a mechanic Fuel system cleaning another ripoff nikkas charge 80 dollars my Uncle sells me the bottle they use for 35 dollars. He said you gotta have a dealers liscence to get it as the product is not on the market and it only cost 30 bucks

I dont ahve a buyer but I figured out hwo they put the shyttiest parts on your car if you take it in for shyt like oil changes and brake pads and charge you premium prices. Did my brake pads myself and I could get low-end sportscar stuff for what they charge you at a body shop.

 

[Sleepy Walker]

Dude tried to tell me to leave it and they'll diagnose it. Pep boys scanners.

Personally Pep Boys is a ripoff and I know a good amount about cars and parts.

My Uncle a mechanic Fuel system cleaning another ripoff nikkas charge 80 dollars my Uncle sells me the bottle they use for 35 dollars. He said you gotta have a dealers liscence to get it as the product is not on the market and it only cost 30 bucks

Your uncle got you also...Seafoam in the metal can, not the aerosol costs at most $13 and either works better than or equal to whatever your uncle sold you.

 

[Black_Jesus]

Dealing with the same bullshyt right now too

A few years ago in Georgia you could still pass if you had only 1 error... them I guess some fukk boy politician changed the law.. now any error, you dont pass

 

[Arithmetic]

So what was the code

 

[Lazy Migrant]

This is why I just lease. I don't know enough about cars to own one.

 

[Icantspell]

One code can be 4 different problems.

I'll just leave the check engine light on

 

[BrothaZay]

Believe cac mechanics brehs

 

[director_of_bands]

yes ABSOLUTELY....I drove a toyota for 10+ years with the engine check light on....thank God I had a mechanic who I trusted who put me on to temporarily cutting the check engine light off to pass inspection

 

[cdc]

yes ABSOLUTELY....I drove a toyota for 10+ years with the engine check light on....thank God I had a mechanic who I trusted who put me on to temporarily cutting the check engine light off to pass inspection

Yeah, when my emissions came due, and I had the check engine light on, I just went to Advanced Auto and bought a code scanner for about $30 and reset the codes. Passed the emissions and the light came back on a day later. About six months later, my mechanic did something to fix it when I had my 15K service, but didn't charge me.

 

[cdc]

They're real and Convent

But...a shop will snake you if you're dumb

Mine came on for emissions...turns out my gas cap was loose

I figured out out because I didn't tighten fully after a drunken night

Dude tried to tell me to leave it and they'll diagnose it. Pep boys scanners.

He said it wasn't a code related to gas cap.

I Google it and gas cap issues came up first

Yeah, the first thing to check when you get the emissions light or any light is if the gas cap is tight, or you pulled out of the station leaving it on top of the gas pump

 

[Maddmike]

Mechanics ,dentist,plumbers ,electrician are all crooks