Started my car yesterday and after a minute my check gauges light comes on. What exactly does this mean? Everything seems to be fine-temp, oil pressure, gas, battery, etc. Nothing is out of the norm at all.

Any ideas? Tried searching and couldn't find anything

Thanks

UPDATE:
Just thought I would follow up my post in case anyone else had a similar problem.

Again, it said "check gauges" but NONE OF MY GAUGES were pointing to anything I should be concerned about (battery, gas, oil pressure, etc.)

Anyway, after a few days I realized one of my spark plug wires was loose-after I pushed that all the way one the light came off immediately.

 

Do you mean the SES light?????

 

No, I've had that in other cars and I can normally take that somewhere so they can scan it for me, this is a red light that says "Check Gauges"

 

Not sure about that one. I don't think I've ever heard of it coming on unless one of the gauges was in fact out of the desired range.

 

you SURE it's got gas??

 

You were right to look at the gauges. That's what it means: to check the guages for a problem. Maybe overheating, oil pressure problem, etc.

 

It's an OBD1 car, right? My '96 lit up the same "CHECK GAGES" light when I almost ran it out of gas. Sheesh, that was a close one.

 

That's what I am confused about-light came on when I had only driven it for about 50 miles after filling up (normally get about 150-170 miles to a tank). Just to make sure I went ahead and filled it up again-only took a few gallons. All other gauges are fine, has enough oil, oil pressure is good, temp is good, etc.

I heard it may be something with the thermostat so i may check in to that this weekend.

 

Bert....

he's talking about a 2002, which is obd2

so was your 96 for that matter....it was the first year for it

 

Yeah, the 'check gages' light (still cracks me up that they spelled it like that) just means to look at your instruments. It means one of your needles is in the red, basically.

Have you done an overlay? Are your needles all correctly positioned?

 

See, that's what happens when you post from the office! My bad.

Another thing that can set a code is a loose gas cap, or am I off base again?

 

That'll set off a SES light... Not a 'check gages' light.

 

Loose fenderwall ground post?

 

I've only had "Check Gauges" come on for 3 different reasons.
1) I stalled it (in the manual)
2) My serpentine belt broke.... Lost Power Steering, Low Voltage
3) The car is off. (IE Listenin to the radio in the parking lot)

 

I've ran out of gas twice in my 96. Not ONCE did any 'check guages' light come on. It's almost as though She does it to me on purpose.