Okay, something new, although it hasn't happened in the past three weeks, during which time substantially more mileage has been put on the vehicle.
During February, and into March, sometimes the yellow SERVICE ENGINE SOON light came on, on the dashboard.
Sometime during this time, the mechanic had serviced the vehicle, putting on two new rear brakes, a new water-pump, and changing the fluids, which showed no leakage.
He told me to keep my eye on that yellow light, as he couldn't guess.
This guy is a state-of-the-art, top-notch, highest quality, top-of-the-line mechanic, and knows more about things in a fingernail, than I do in an entire body. Not to mention that his character is that of one of the highest repute in the Sandhills of Nebraska; the paragonal salt-of-the-earth Nebraskan.
So I've been keeping my eye on that yellow light.
It comes on ONLY during extremely wet (not wet, or mildly wet, but extremely wet) conditions, such as when the snow on the roads is heavy and damp. Ordinary snow or cold snow, no. Only when the snow is heavy and damp.
And then I recalled something; ever since I've had the vehicle, that yellow light has ALWAYS come on, for a few seconds or a few minutes, whenever conditions are extremely wet.....like in the middle of summer, when we're getting a heavy downpour.
During such times, one gets the "feeling" the engine is wanting to lose its power, but it never does; it only wants to. The sensation of, perhaps, a belt wanting to lose its grip, but not losing its grip. Like a pig beginning to slide on ice, but with some grippage, which isn't lost.
I have a vivid imagination.
Anybody have any speculations?
This of course is of concern to me, given that I drive in an area where there are more miles of roads per vehicle, than vehicles per mile of road, and I really dislike getting stuck out in the middle of nowhere, with no way to get a hold of anyone.
