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I love it when all the pretty lights come on!
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I've seen a few memes from this movie recently. Are they all you?
lol, no.
Planes, Trains, & Automobiles is an American Thanksgiving movie and Thanksgiving is next month, so that’s probably why so many are thinking about it again.
you paid money for that car so you better be getting your moneys worth by getting every single light to turn on or else you'd be wasting the bulbs
The odds that all of those are true at the same time are extremely low:
- Check engine
- Check brakes
- Low washer fluid
- Low fuel
- Low tire pressure
More likely, this is a short in the gauge cluster or its wiring, or a bad ECU (possibly some other module depending on the car).
Or this car was just turned on and the photo was taken during the car starting up where all the lights come on at the same time.
Which is an important thing to check for, if you ever buy a used car. Some not-so-honest used car dealerships sell cars which have persistent ECU faults - which would result in a check engine light. To prevent the buyers from seeing these they just snip off the check engines LED from the instrument cluster board.
Here in Germany, there have been several fraud cases where car dealers don’t actually own the cars they’re selling. Instead, they’re selling them on consignment for someone else. That means when you buy the car, you don’t really know who the actual seller is, as the dealer just can say "ah, sorrybI didn't know about that" . It’s a strange setup — and quite risky for the buyer, because it makes it hard to any legal rights if something goes wrong.
Btw these cars frequently are from salvage auctions in the us, then sent to eastern Europe to be fixed up so they look good from the outside and last being sold on small "used car" dealer lots as "pigs with lipstick".
That is even more likely. I failed to get my head outside of the scenario as presented.
Clearly you have never been around my vehicles.
It's quite possible, low tyre pressure can cause wheel speeds to be different, which will cause an ABS fault. Low fuel and washer fluid is self explanatory, and the check engine light could be a lot of things.
This is probably taken during the self check on startup though.
It may just be a German car.
Small piece of electrical tape will fix that right up.
Jeep owner?
Engine? Check!
There's only two issue here: you're running out of fuel, and your tyre are too shy 👉👈
It's christmas time
She's awakened!
It's even more beautiful if some are red as well
you can fix all of these issues at once by covering the lights with duct tape!
Careful with that though, the blinker fluid indicator is not displaying, you might start a fire if you dehydrate and cocoon them!
My old man shared me this trick you can use in a pinch when you're low on blinker fluid: Salt water.
Name a car so shit that the pretty lights wouldn't even come on due to a bulb failure
Ooo, you've almost got all þe achievements!
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas;
Soon alarms will start,
And the thing that will make them ring is the smoke that makes eyes sting
Right within your car
Been there, seen that. Happened when I had the family in car, in the middle of the motorway. I barely managed to get through the trucks onto the hard shoulder...
Someone unlocked Jackpot mode! I bet you're hearing lots of alarm bells too!
Translation:
I want to go for a swim!
Forgot to put it in H first
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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