no my parking lights arent stuck on....

 

i dont know/think anything is wrong but the guy i got the car from said he thought it had an electrical problem. so i thought it would be worth checking out.

 

also the check engine light is on. what does that mean??

 

CEL is probably from the oxygen sensor (if it still runs okay). Autozone probably won't know how to pull the codes from this -- you have to plug two wires under the hood together and read the code from a blinking LED under the dash. The writeup with details is somewhere on the board.

 

Personally, I'd try to sell it for $1200 or $1k (no rust!!!), and buy an old GL wagon for $500 (around here I see a dozen for sale in that range every month) Won't look as pretty, but it'll have 4wd and you can make a nice offroader with a little lift. You do tend to fall in love with them... I still regret selling all of my previous ones (even though there were reasons I got rid of them). But I can't really have 5 of them sitting around, right....

Read this:

 

http://www.usmb.net/repair/?CurrentDirectory=FOLDER_3f29b58f4430b8.49200047/&FileType=Article&File=ARTICLE_3f2c055f4862e9.39782181.art