I have a hard time understanding why it seems people don't believe these warning messages and pull over immediatly and check over the car. If it's really out of fluid, you may push the brake and it feels fine. Then the next time you push on it, no brakes, and major accident.
Nothing against the OP per say, it's a general statment that I am finding the population doesn't heed warnings very well.
I'm the OP and believe me I take nothing personal in your statement. I posted in a hurry this morning when I first got to work as I was rather irritated that a three week old car was flashing warnings and was probably not clear enough in my post.
The warning light did not stay on. It would come on for a couple of seconds and then go off, and then come on again a few minutes later and go quickly off. I have been driving long enough to know when things are not behaving properly by feel and if I suspected that in the least I would have stopped immediately. Of course, the reason I know how a lot of these problems manifest themselves is from some questionable driving/maintenance in my youth, both from a lack of financial resources back then and, as much as I hate to admit it, just plain immaturity with regards to dealing with certain things that should have been dealt with in a timely manner.
I was in the latter half of my drive to work and one thing the last two roads of my drive have in common is they are straight, flat, and desolate (as in I see no one as a rule). Again, any sign of pressure loss or the like and I would have been dialing roadside assistance.
Did go out and check at lunch and also a little while ago. No evidence of a leak anywhere and there is fluid. Pressure seems fine. It seems that when they added fluid though, it was just added to the Min level. Think it was just messing with the level sensor briefly. Again, if I thought my welfare, or more importantly the welfare of someone else, was at risk, I would have been on the side of the road and on the phone.
