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shadowsword87 posted...

For the record, if your check engine light is blinking, find somewhere to get it looked at immediately.
That's the "oh no" level.

Indeed. Everything else is just "there's something wrong we don't have a dedicated light for," which is generally worth getting checked out, but probably won't hurt to leave for a little while. Blinking, however, means you should pull over and get a tow unless the garage you're going to is like 20 feet away.

It won't necessarily replace going to a garage, but you can buy diagnostic code readers for cars pretty cheaply that will give you at least a partial answer for why the light is on. You'll still need a garage to actually fix the problem, but getting that answer and being able to research its implications may be more comforting for you than this vague idea that something is wrong and you don't know what. It might be worth looking into that, if you're the sort of person who feels less anxious with more information.

EclairReturns posted...

there was no way of telling how much there is going to be in two days when it would have come time for me to retrieve my car.

You could always have left it there for a day or two until it was safe to get there. Not going out in bad snow is pretty normal (and thoroughly sensible, if you can avoid it), but there's also no harm in not picking your car up immediately, especially if it's weather in which you aren't going to be driving anyway. But delaying this appointment by two weeks isn't a big deal either, and odds are the garage would have told you if they suspected it was.