What to Do When the Vehicle Maintenance Warning Light Comes On?

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When the vehicle maintenance warning light comes on, the owner should safely pull over and stop driving. They should then call a familiar repair shop or a 4S shop, as the warning light indicates a component failure that requires timely inspection and repair. The maintenance warning light typically indicates a fault in the vehicle's electronic control system, which the owner cannot resolve on their own. It is necessary to visit a repair shop to use a diagnostic scanner to read the fault code, and then proceed with inspection and repair based on the code's instructions. Normally, the appearance of a warning light is accompanied by a fault code, but there are exceptions where a component issue may not generate a fault code in the system that triggered the light, as the code might be stored in another system.