Just proves that if you ignore a problem long enough, it'll go away.




"Tomes" > wrote in message
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> Well the check engine light went away all by itself after maybe 20
> restarts
> or so, not counting the on-off-on-off-on sequences to check. This is the
> old Tomes way of fixing things - wait a while and it goes away.....
>
> Thanks for your help here folks.
> Tomes
>
> "Jeff Strickland" > wrote in message
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>> "Tomes" > wrote in message
>> link.net...
>> > "Jeff Strickland" > wrote in message
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>> >> "Tomes" > wrote in message
>> >> ink.net...
>> >> > OK, so it has been a couple of days now [all dried out - went to
> Black
>> >> > Potatoe folk music festival today] put the gas cap on and off a few
>> > times,
>> >> > still get the code. I looked around in a cursory manner under the
>> >> > hood,
>> >> not
>> >> > really knowing what to look for, and see nothing out of the ordinary
> in
>> >> the
>> >> > way of vacuum lines that I find in there.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> You have to physically reset the code, or wait for several (I think
>> >> the
>> >> number is in the range of ~40) start-cycles for it to go out on it's
> own.
>> > It
>> >> will not have gone out by now, even if the gas cap was not secured
>> >> when
>> > the
>> >> code came up.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Well I guess that is where I am then, off to the land of the 40. I'm
>> > up
>> > to
>> > maybe 10 now....
>> > Thanks.
>> > I suppose physically setting the code is something I am not to do?
>> >
>>
>> That is a false assumption. There is no reason you can't reset the code.
>> I
>> am not sure, but I think you can do it by unplugging the battery for
>> something like 5 minutes. <I'm sure somebody will tell us the actual
>> duration.> Or, you can get your hands on the code reader tool, and press
>> a
>> button. In California, AutoZone stores, and others I would guess, will
> allow
>> you to use a code reader tool that they keep on hand for customers. The
> idea
>> is that a customer will come in with the Check light on, or recently on
> but
>> now off, and they can use the code reader to get the code(s) and reset
>> it(them), then come in and buy a shopping cart full of parts worth
> hundreds
>> of dollars, or one part worth about $20. Either way, the store gets youir
>> car parts dollars if they let you use the code reader.
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