on the dash board of my car, the 'check' light is always on.what does that mean? pls the gurus help!

mine too.
its a 1995 toyota camry LE

If its a '96 and up model year car, you'll need a OBD II scan tool the codes will tell you what you have to fix(usually emission related) O2 sensor,EGR,MAP,IAC,TPS, Spark plugs. Your car is probably emitting more smoke, or you smell more gasoline from your exhaust(burn more fuel), or keeps reving up/down while idleing.

Pre '95 is either OBD I or a trip to your local toyota stealership.

hi, sultan my car is 1997 honda accord. do you know any good place in abuja where i can take the car, to fix the problem.thanks

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@ ricki, what do you mean?

Your car is telling you there is a problem, but you don't know the car's tech.If you don't find out what is wrong, it may work below optimal level, or your engine/tramsmission gets fried.You can't know wat is wrong without getting the DTCs so you get a cheap scanner or find/google how to read codes without a scanner. Here is what DTCS are about

http://www.obd-codes.com/

The scanner I use is like this

thanks a lot, sultan.pls do you know any place where i can get it and how much is it

Have a friend buy it and send to you in naija.Someone I know just did that after paying big bucks for a mech to look at his new Corolla and person got N15k for small work.
Scanner is about $45 for cheap$90 for good ones

first, check your air inlet filter before any other thing because it might be very dirty.hence the check engine will come up, it has happened to me. Goodluck

Usual suspects, dirty air filter,fuel filter, fuel injectors, sparkplugs, sensors good luck

Check engine light are meant to dram ur attention to some faulty mechanism in ur car.More often than not ,it has to do with emmision.However in order`\to know exactly what it is,u have to employ the use of a scanner to read the code.Since most naija mechanics do not have this, u may want to(1) do a general servicing of ur car or (2) disconnect ur car battery and reconnect after say 5 min.This way the check light will go off for a while and may come back if u have still not fixed that problem.