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    [–] LostXOR@fedia.io 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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

    [–] Monstera@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

    My wife hates it when that happens

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 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.

    [–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 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

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

    Imminent catastrophic failure.

    [–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 2 points 6 months ago

    Misfiring in my experience

    [–] SkyJuice@lemmy.world 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