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Old 03-22-2009, 01:39 PM
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Went to advanced to clear a check engine light. For what i dont know. The check engine light checker thign they have wouldnt read on my car. after trying to hook it up the whole left bank cylinders are not firing now. Its running on 4 cylinders. Any ideas?
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Went to advanced to clear a check engine light. For what i dont know. The check engine light checker thign they have wouldnt read on my car. after trying to hook it up the whole left bank cylinders are not firing now. Its running on 4 cylinders. Any ideas?
go get it SCANNED not erased... it should be throwing codes again if its only running on 4 cylinders.
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Uh I work for advance and there has been an instance where our code reader has effed up someones ecm for some unknown reason. But this was years ago this is exactly why we usually dont mess with it.
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I don't take it places like that to get it read. Take it to the dealer and have it read correctly the first time.
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ive read several car codes with an advanced scanner. First off it free. second dealer would want like 100$ to read it.

Second i tried reading the code to erase it. it wont scan the car for codes. so i couldnt do either of them.
Then when i went to leave the car only runs on like 4 cylinders now.
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Try disconnecting the battery for a while. Then start it again. With zero power the ECM will reset.

Post up results and we will go from there.




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