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My 99 Saab 9-5 has been telling me for 2-3 weeks to fill coolant. Should've done it sooner, but it kept turning into those "I'll do it tomorrow" sort of things (of which I will certainly never let happen again). On my way home today, the Check Engine light went on. I filled up the coolant (with Saab label coolant) as well as the windshield fluid reservoir because I had been noticing my windshield fluid was not very good as of late.
After waiting a couple minutes, I turned the car back on but still got the Check Engine light. I stepped out of my car and noticed that all the windshield fluid was leaking out someplace from the reservoir onto the ground. I'm not as intimate with my car's inner workings as I'd like (no one in my family knows anything about cars and I was never informed how to do basic things like change a tire), so I did some googling and came to the conclusion that it may just be a sensor malfunction with a P0116 code.
I took my car to a local auto mechanic, who tried to charge me $120 for a complete computer diagnostic, but I asked him to simply use an OBD scanner because I suspected it to throw a P0116. Instead, it read out a P0125.
My car has never gotten any sort of O2 or temp sensor replacement in its entire life as far as I'm aware. It's certainly possible that it's the mere combo of me running the car with low coolant levels and the sensor being old and easily breakable. But, as I'm extremely low on cash at this moment, and am a relatively naive car owner, I'm not sure what the proper next steps should be. My local auto place will probably bleed me dry, but the special Saab place near me does that as well, only they are actual experts in these cars. I wouldn't mind fixing the car myself it was plausible. My big question is this: what could possibly be wrong with my car, and is it imperative that I fix it asap?
posted by 75.73.19...
, Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:59:33
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