How to Diagnose a Check Engine Light | BMW Ownership 101

VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Some strong language is used at the beginning of this video!

Were you thrashing your BMW around the track? Forget to change the oil 26,000km ago? Does your exhaust smell like eggs? Chances are your Check Engine Light or Service Engine Soon light has come on. Before parting the car out let's see what options are available to fix the problem.

We made this video as a parody, not of any other video, but just some car culture in general. We often found posts on forums and car communities asking to help diagnose an engine fault light without properly diagnosing the codes first, which would result in dozens of comments from the community, mostly negative. While we don't think a video like this will ever solve the problem of people asking for help without helping themselves first, we hope people will find it humorous, and share it when people ask for help like this.

We strongly recommend buying an inexpensive code scanner in order to get the basic codes for your check engine light before posting about it online. A photo alone of the light does nothing, yet many people think it will. While the first part of this video is meant to be funny and troll people who post help requests like this, the second half is informative and hopefully will be educational for some.