What's with the blinking light?
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From: Washington State
What's with the blinking light?
When there is something wrong with my 1990 Honda Civic I have to pull back the carpet on the passenger side and count the number of times the light blinks. Then I have to look it up in the manual. The same thing goes for my 1995 Civic. Why don't they just put a simple LCD alarm clock like display that displays text?! I mean, how hard is it? It's not hard at all and it's not expensive. They are still stuck in the 60's! Unless you buy a $200 code reader you have to decipher the blinking light codes.
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What's with the blinking light?
I think the whole point is they want to to come into the dealership so THEY can hook up the $200.00 tester and then figure out how many extra charges and parts they can stick you with.
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What's with the blinking light?
I think the real issue is that you have problems with the car often enough to make this a hassle!
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What's with the blinking light?
I think we all know subconciously that Honda cars aren't crap. I give Honda, Toyota, and Nissan credit for concentrating on building more fuel efficient automobiles. That's why their cars are sold all over the world. In countries where gas costs $3, $4, or more per gallon, fuel economy wins out over size. I wish american carmakers would concentrate on building more efficient cars again. After our brief scare in the 70's, we went right back to building and marketing gas guzlers that are probably worse than the cars of the 60's and 70's. Why can't we learn from our mistakes??
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What's with the blinking light?
I agree, The cars from the 60's and 70's were some of teh best ever made. To tell you the truth I don't think they can make them any better than that!!!. Also I would never ever, drive an economy car. If a car gets more than 12 m.p.g. I aint buying it. I leave those cars for the darn liberals!!!
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What's with the blinking light?
Let me post a follow up to clear up my earlier thread. I didn't say the cars of the 60's and 70's were bad cars. They were fine for the times. I said they used to much gas. Like it or not their is a finite amount of fossil fuel on this planet. It takes like a million years for the chemical reaction in the ground to produce crude oil. When we use the last drop up, we're done. How efficient we are determines if we run out in our lifetime, our kids, our grandkids, etc. The cars were great, we just need to think ahead.
