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VW Cabriolet start up problem
On Jun 3, 8:33*am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> In article >, > > liu > wrote: > >Thank you all for more information. > > >> Just about anything. =A0Pull the codes and tell me what you see. > > >Where to pull the codes? Do you need to drive it to Autozone or a > >similar store to get the reading? > > I'd take it to a real mechanic, if you don't have a scanner. *Because > the next step is going to be to look at the ECU parameters if there aren't > any codes set, and you are going to need a scanner for that (and a better > one than the ones the kids at Autozone have). > > Without the scanner you basically can do only very limited diagnosis on modern > cars, because you can't tell what the engine control system is doing. > > With the crappy Autozone-grade scanners you can see if any error codes have > been set, but beyond that you can't really see anything. *Sometimes that's > enough to tell you what is going on, sometimes it's not. > --scott > -- > "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." It's a V.W. Enough said. |
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