Hacker News Reader

Comment by thi2 | Hacker News Reader

At my first job our project manager was colorblind (red-orange/yellow). One day he dropped a photo of his cars dashboard at a red light with an orange "check engine light"

> "Quick, is this red or orange I need to know if it'll blow".

I'm sure it's a really annoying condition but at the time it was pretty funny and he joked around with it a lot

View on HN

Just FYI, the check engine light (orange or yellow) is never an emergency. It's normally something emissions-related. Oil and temperature, yes those are much more critical but those are separate (red) indicators. You don't need to rely on color if you know this.

Solid color yeah. A flashing check engine light can be an emergency if you want to avoid more costly repairs later

Yep my check engine light went straight to flashing when I was driving once. I drove to the nearest garage (about 2 miles away) to get it fixed. A spark plug had blown up/exploded and pieces of ceramic from the spark plug had completely scratched up the inside of my cylinder over those 2 miles rendering that engine unfixable.

I don’t think the 2 miles mattered. Once it exploded the engine was done

Yeah, but it would’ve been recoverable if it didn’t have such deep scratches that I got over those 2 miles

I mean, they can generally re-sleeve a cylinder. Did no one offer that solution?

They did I believe. I remember getting it fixed and it running for a couple of months after that and then at a certain point the new sleeve I forget what it was called like a Halberg screw or something that they put in also broke and then they weren’t able to do it again.

google lens can probably answer these kinds of questions for him, but uh, he should be aware not to trust his car blowing up with AI!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com