Warning Light

[WizeFrog]

Hi, lately whenever I start my 96 Cavalier and make a turn a warning light comes on. It looks like a square with a water line inside and an arrow pointing down. Does anyone with an owners manual know what this means? I've checked all the fluids. Water level is fine. Any clues?

[Venger10]

Are your turn signals on when this is happening??

[WizeFrog]

No, my turn signals aren't on. It's started popping on now even when I'm not turning, but tends not to pop up once the car has been on for a while.

[Venger10]

Well heck.....

I could help you better if I knew what this light looked like...

Any way you could post a pic??

I know , I'm a pain in the ass...

[Shortbus]

Sounds like a crappy low coolant level sensor, they are usually snapped into the passenger side radiator tank about midway up. These are notorious for the snap lock cracking.

[WizeFrog]

Yea, I thought it might be a bad sensor. It looks like this: (this is my first time posting a pic, hopefully this will work)

[pcv]

Make sure you are not loosing coolant. Top up your radiator when vehicle is cold and also your radiator resorvoir bottle. If problem persists you have a leak or a bad low level sensor. Good Luck.

[Venger10]

Yup...thats what it sounds like...bad sensor...

It does it when you make a turn though?? Thats the part that confused me...:alien: Must be getting a lot of "slosh" which may be uncovering that sensor for a split second. Maybe you have an air bubble in the system??

[WizeFrog]

Filled the radiator resorvoir and problem solved. Thanks for the help everybody.

-Another Cavalier Owner