I'm in the process of moving and my manual is buried in one of about 20 huge boxes so i can't get to it for a week probably. Just today a little yellow icon of an engine lit up over the tachometer in my 2004 accord coupe. Can someone tell me what this is? I a bit worried about this because i don't want to keep driving it if theres something that seriously needs to be tended to. Thank you.

 

it is you check engine light

 

No, that would be the oil light. I called honda and they said it has to do with emission controls having an issue, and could even be a loose gas cap. The cap was indeed loose, but the icon remains so i'm worried.

 

Oil is red. Check Engine Light is yellow.


take a picture and attach it to confirm.

 

its hard to diagnose whats wrong with it unless you take it somewhere but you can also try to go to autozone or some auoparts place and they can get rid of the check engine light

 

if it's the yellow CEL, and the gas cap not being fully tightened was the cause, it can take a day (or 2 separate trips) for the CEL to go off(once cap is on properly, 3 clicks). Otherwise, you could remove the corresponding ECU fuse(s) or remove neg. battery cable for ~15 seconds, to reset and remove the CEL faster.

 

A-series nailed it. tho i already found my manual and found out it takes a few days. However, it hasn't gone out yet so i will try the fuse trick to see if it goes back on when i replace it. The cap was loose when it went on, so thats gotta be it, tho i do still worry since it's on after 3 days still.

the little yellow engine does NOT say "check" in it, and i think the icon is dual purpose....icon with no "check"=gas cap or emissions issue, icon with "check" in it=check engine. The pic in a couple posts above is a different model then mine.