Maintenance light blinks even after oil change.

It just shows Brian read his Owners manual. Don't the rest of you wish you
could read.....

 

Well, Good! Stay the **** away too. Next time don't bother us with
questions that could be answered quickly by reading your owner's manual. If
you didn't get a manual with your car, call the dealer.

Bearman

 

"Bob S." wrote

"better.. than I."

 

Everybody is jumping on Bob here for calling the guy an idiot, but I
have to agree with him.

When my maintenance light came on, I looked in the manual and knew in 2
minutes I didn't have a problem because the light comes on at certain
mileage points regardless of whether you did any maintenence or not.

Then another 20 seconds to reset and turn the light off.

Arctic Wolf is not the first guy to post a question here that could be
answered in a few minutes by looking in the manual and he won't be the
last, and it doesn't matter what he does for a living or what kind of
person he is, or what kind of education he's had.

The answer was obvious if the idiot had looked in the manual.

 

And you don't hesitate to tell us all how grand you are, something we
can only surmise the truth of, in the face of absolute proof that you
didn't even bother to read your owner's manual.

Absolute proof in the hand is worth more than two claims of superiority
in the bush.

You can say whatever you want, you can make whatever claims you want
about your accomplishments, but remember: on the internet, no one knows
you're a dog.

 

It gives absolute information.

 

Would someone who's intelligent and educated go to a newsgroup to find
out how to turn off a flashing maintenance light on his car? Or would
he go to the owner's manual?

You tell us.

(But we already know the answer.)

 

"I'm not sure." is your response?[/QUOTE]

no, counselor. Don't take three words out of context. That wasn't his
response. His response is that he's not sure, but he is pretty sure
that an educated person would read the owner's manual that comes with
the car.

It's amazing how many people throw away or otherwise never bother to
read the owner's manual that comes with their shiny multi-thousand
dollar toy.

 

Which is your way of saying it may not actually apply to him.

 

no, counselor. Don't take three words out of context. That wasn't his
response. His response is that he's not sure, but he is pretty sure
that an educated person would read the owner's manual that comes with
the car.

It's amazing how many people throw away or otherwise never bother to
read the owner's manual that comes with their shiny multi-thousand
dollar toy.[/QUOTE]

This whole thread makes me chuckle... Especially considering I may be the
least educated of the bunch (a fact I'm quite proud of considering how I've
done in life thus far).

 

: I really doubt you can call me or anyone else "stupid". Only a truely
: ignorant person would feel right to call another "stupid" without all the
: necessary info. Trust me when I say this, I'm far more accomplished than
: you, in terms of both career and academic achievement.

Far more obnoxious, too, I see.

-Justin

 

a simple question about the maintenance light turned into a big argument
about one's education and achievement.
Yes, I agree that one should make an attempt to find the answers to such
questions by going through the manual first but there are many who will not
bother to go through the manual or may be lazy to read it.....and they will
keep posting simple questions like this one............and so best thing to
do for such cases is not to reply if you feel that it is too simple and easy
to find out from the manual........
as for the newbies (like me), Yes reading the manual is a must .... always
start with the manual for any question you have.... chances are most of the
questions will be answered then and there itself. if you there are several
similar kind of postings on this newsgroup, go through them...you will
definitely find some pointer to your question

Just my humble opinion.

HNB

 

sorry for the grammatical error ..........what I meant was ... "if not" and
not "If you" in the above line.

 

If Arctic Wolf had your attitude, none of this would have happened.

Bearman

 

or even hitting Google first.

If one knows about the newsgroups enough to post the question here,
netiquette demands even a cursory search of said group before posting
the question.

And since the question comes up twice a week, even a cursory search
would have found it.

Ergo, he didn't search. He didn't look in his owner's manual. He just
came here expecting to be spoon-fed.

It's like someone asking, "How do I bold something in Microsoft Word?"
Now, if said person goes on to say, "I've hit the B button, I've gone to
the character format dialog box, and everything's set--but it's not
bolding," that's a different question. That's more of a "why doesn't
the bold command work?" which would be a legitimate question, because
that wouldn't be covered in the owner's manual--it would be a bug issue,
and of course that's why the community is here, to share such
information that isn't in the documentation. But "I've never done this
before, can someone tell me how?" is asking to be spoon-fed. And that's
not what the world is about, not when it's in the documentation or
available in a very cursory search.

 

no, not at all.

It's like bad service in a restaurant. You never leave a zero tip; that
doesn't get the message across. You leave a nickel. THAT gets the
message across.

Silence doesn't tell these people that we know they're idiots.