Help!!?!?......I can't get the code retrival system to work by cycling the ignition key on my 98.5.........I might be missing something here........

Can somebody post the correct steps to retrieving the codes with the key technique?

Any help is appreciated.......

thanks.....

 

that method doesn't work for our year. Go to autozone and they can hook up the odb2.

 

The early 24 valve trucks don't do the key-on-off trick.
I think it started in late, late 99 into the 2000 year.
Mine doesn't work either.
But it did on my '90 1/2 ton gasser.

 

...........that isn't exactly what I was hoping to here!

Any suggestions on which reasonably priced OBDII code readers are best?.........I never paid much attention to them before because I have never had an OBDII vehicle that I have had to mess with.

 

Most major auto parts chain stores (PepBoys, Advance, Auto Zone etc) will pull & erase the codes they can retrieve for free.
The parts stores I've seen use the same one you can buy off the shelf in their store.

There are other codes that can only be pulled or cleared with a DRB tool like the dealer uses.

You can find them on Ebay sometimes.

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

 

http://www.canadiantire.ca/assortmen...=1109190346995


I'm thinking of buying that one..

Good or bad?

 

Canadian Tire Scanner

That link didn't take me to a scanner......is this the scanner you were looking at?.......looks ok........don't know for sure.......maybe someone else could comment on it?

 

I have that scanner from Crappy tire, but am returning it I want a scanner that will scan real time not just when a code is entered to the ecm. (when a code is entered it also stores the parameters that caused the code the scanner will then give a "freeze frame of the problem" helps to figure out at what speed,rpm etc the problem is occuring at.

jason

 

Other than the reason you are returning the scanner, did it function ok and do everything else you wanted?

 

ya it worked good, just didn't have everything I was looking for, VERY easy to use almost....idiot proof, but I'm sure someone will prove me wrong

 

CTD,

This might help.

http://www.autotap.com