Help me please, my dashboard.... ( ||||||| yes, THAT again)

[Oldiebutgoody]

I have a 93 Mitsu Eclipse GS non turbo 2.0 liter.On the dashboard where you see the MPH,
to the left there are 3 little screens,the middle being "CHECK ENGINE". To the right of that
there is an orange screen that lights up with a symbol that looks like a monument. Does anybody know what that symbol stands for? I bought a Haynes manual when I got the car but it doesn't have it in there. Thanks for any help!!!

 

[igopoopy]

i think thats oil

 

[aleccolin]

The "monument" is supposed to be a radiator, though more like one that you'd find on a car from the thirties. Check your coolant level, it's probably low.

 

[blackGSX2g]

The "monument" is supposed to be a radiator, though more like one that you'd find on a car from the thirties. Check your coolant level, it's probably low.

Yep, its coolant. Defiant had a funny collage of pics of the 'monument'. I'll see if I can find it.


Edit...here it is, copied from Defiant's post.

 

[Enginetrasher]

that light comes on when the over flow resecoir is empty just put water in it and that light goes off had that happen on both my dsm's or unplug it and run a wire from one lead to the other fixes it also
but not as safe

 

[shoddywood]

also check your hoses for small cracks.i had the light come on and filled the resevior up and the next day the light was on again.yet i had no puddles under the car,or any obvious drips.yet i could clearly smell the tell tale radiator smell.one of the main heater hoses had cracked near the clamp and was spraying toward the engine,vaporizing on contact thus removing any evidence of the leak.

 

[ADrewzki]

Yep, its coolant. Defiant had a funny collage of pics of the 'monument'. I'll see if I can find it.


Edit...here it is, copied from Defiant's post.

Haha. I love that picture. Makes me laugh everytime I see it.

 

[onepimpclipse]

Haha. I love that picture. Makes me laugh everytime I see it.

Me too. Not as much as when Defiant posts it with a witty response though.