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Old Mar 12, 2005 | 05:15 PM
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Fired the vette up today, my SYS light is flashed at me 3 times. It does it everytime I fire it up. Anyone know what that means? Thanks
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Old Mar 13, 2005 | 06:15 PM
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You're posting in the wrong forum and didn't say what year Vette you have.

If this is for your 92, SYS indicates the CCM has detected an electrical problem

To get the error code use a piece of wire or paper clip
and short pin A to G.

Connector above the driverside knee looks like this.

|F|-|-|C|B|A|
|G|-|J|K|L|M|

Turn the ignition on. (Don't start the engine).
Look at the LCD in the center of the dash cluster.

The codes will cycle.
Module 1 CCM
Module 4 ECM
Module 9 ABS

C12 means no CCM errors
---- indicates no errors for the other modules.

Write down the error code/codes and for what module and repost.

If no errors are displayed for the CCM module, the battery most likely has a low charge.

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Old Mar 13, 2005 | 07:16 PM
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Sounds like a low battery charge.
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Old May 6, 2005 | 04:14 PM
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What pins do you use on the 94-95 cars? I get the SYS light everytime I plug in my datacable. Last time I tried to tune the car with that on it fried the computer and I have been very hesitant to put a new tune in because I don't want to do that again. This happened 3 years ago and I still have the same battery going strong.
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Old May 7, 2005 | 05:05 AM
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sry for the irrelivance in advance...

I was wondering what would happen if u shorted the pins and "started the engine"? ive noticed that everyone says dont, Dont, DONT turn engine on.. bold.. italics.. ect. just wondering what would happen...
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Shawn,

Probably nothing, the key in the on position is what is used for programming and diagnostics...

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Old May 8, 2005 | 10:19 PM
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Shorting the diagnostic pin to ground and starting the engine forces the PCM to stay in open loop mode.

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