Car trouble plz help : (?

Question

my engine diagnostics warning light has came on my peugeot 206, is it still safe to drive it till i can get to a garage or should i go to one straight away, first thing in the morning.

Answer 1

If you live near an autozone. (not sure where you are from) an employee there can connect to your car using an obd 2 scanner and read the diagnostic code to tell you what the problem is. Where i am from they do this for free. You can probably get this done at a local shop as well, but probably for a fee.

The employees usually are not very helpful when it comes to troubleshooting, but you can take that code and go from there.

Answer 2

Depends what the code(s) are. It might be safe to drive. I would avoid autozone and their free check engine light reads. I have people coming into my shop on a daily basis with parts in their hands asking us to install them. I get a kick out of it but I gladly take their money. Autozone employees are not diagnosticians, if they were, they wouldn't be working there for 8 bucks an hour. Anyone can pull a code, but diagnosing what is actually the culprit takes skills autozone employees dont have.