Talk about perfect timing....I was just in Havasu then Laughlin on my way home and my friend & I stopped @ Railroad casino and once we left my check engine light came on....oh boy!! Not something any car owner wants to see.
So I went onto Yelp to see where the closes AutoZone was & this one was on our way home so we stopped in to get the code read on the car.
It looked busy when we walked in. There was one girl talking to an employee @ one counter and a girl in line and then two other girls (together) standing next to the line. Well luckily the 2 girls together weren't in line and the one in front of me had an easy transaction. The employee then greeted me & I told him my check engine light came on & he told me Anthony would help me. He was the other employee helping out the other girl at the counter.
So once Anthony was free he grabbed the code reading device & we went out to my car. He had me turn it on & it was real quick thing to do. Then we had to go inside so he could run it into the computer (or whatever it is they do?? LOL) and he told me it was showing it was possibly was my thermostat. He told me he was going to give me a print out. It tells me how the thermostat works & what happens when it doesn't work. It even has my odometer reading, car make & model on it. Real quick and easy!!
My friend looked up replacing the thermostat on my car cause he's good with car stuff but it looked like a pretty involved process so I decided I would contact my automotive shop to have it looked at & see if that is what is wrong with my car.
It sucks that this has happened now, during these hot days we've been having & I pray my car will get me to work tonight & to the automotive shop tomorrow to get the problem fixed but what is super cool is because of this service AutoZone offers I now have some what of an idea of why my check engine light is on and IT'S FREE!!!
Thanks for your help Anthony and the friendly, quick staff @ this location!!! read more