engine check light help!
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Topic: engine check light help!
Posted By: vinh766
Subject: engine check light help!
Date Posted: February 10, 2003 at 8:27 PM
i was checking stuff out and i unknowingly disconnect the Intake Sensor wire from the Intake/throttle body in my 97 eclipse GS, now my Engine Check light stays on when my car is on, even after i have reconnected the wire, does anyone know how i can reset it somehow? plz let me know. thank you. vinh766
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Posted By: zargon
Date Posted: February 10, 2003 at 8:46 PM
one way is to take off the positive and negitive terminals on the battery, wait 5 minutes thouch the two together and then put them back on the battery, some cars will take longer than that, we've had to wait up to 30 minutes on some cars. another cheap way is to go to an auto zone or probally a store like them and they will read the code for free and reset it, don't tell them why it is on so they will look at it. good luck!!!
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Posted By: BNLUIS
Date Posted: February 10, 2003 at 8:47 PM
disconnect the cars battery for about 15 minutes hopefully will reset the Ecm. or else you will have to take into the dealer. ------------- Luis
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Is up to the installer to test all wires with a DMM whenever possible.
Posted By: PLAYER69
Date Posted: February 10, 2003 at 8:47 PM
Disconnect the battery for about 1/2 hour or so. Either that or take it to a garage and they can reset it for you with their scan tool.
Posted By: zargon
Date Posted: February 10, 2003 at 8:49 PM
one way is to disconnect the positiveand negitive terminals of the batterywait from 5 to 30 minutes then touch the two together and then put them back on the battery, or take it to auto zone and they will check it and clear it for free, good luck
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zargon ruler of estranorth
Posted By: PLAYER69
Date Posted: February 10, 2003 at 8:50 PM
LOL I guess zargon wins!! Congratulations :) 3 posts within 1 minute!
Posted By: vinh766
Date Posted: February 10, 2003 at 9:02 PM
daym, thank you guys so much, ur replies are so dang fast i dont' know what to say, thank you sooo much. one more thing though, even if i do get the codes, how do i use those codes to reset my car? and what are those codes called? like what would i ask the people at kragens "my car's reset codes?" thank you so much for ur help so far. vinh766
Posted By: PLAYER69
Date Posted: February 10, 2003 at 9:38 PM
They will reset it after they read the codes. Just tell them your check engine light is on and you want to know whats wrong. They will hook their scanner up to it and say that there is a code mass airflow sensor or whatever your unplugged. They will then try to sell you a part to fix the problem but just tell them you want the code reset and you will wait to see if it does it again before buying the part which of course you will not need.  If I were you I would try disconnecting the battery for 30 mintues first. That should work.
Posted By: dsn2gr8
Date Posted: March 11, 2003 at 9:19 PM
another alternative that i have used is remove the fuse for the ECM (for a few min.) under the hood where the relay and engine fuses are located. that should take care of "check engine"light. ( it worked on my 94 celica)
Posted By: Two_Cold
Date Posted: March 13, 2003 at 6:24 PM
It is also likely that the light will reset itself after a few days.
Posted By: princestfu
Date Posted: March 13, 2003 at 9:59 PM
on ob-1 vehicles, MIL or check engine lights could be resetted by disconnecting the battery for a period of time. but with ob-2 vehicles, even if you disconnect the battery, the MIL will go away, but the code will be stored in the ECM until it is interrogated by a scan tool and erased by a scan tool. theres no way to send that code away w/o a scan tool
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