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Old May 31, 2006 | 01:36 PM
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I am getting a weird intermittent problem that my mechanic has been trying to diagnose without success so far. I can be driving and the check engine light comes and I go into limp home mode. (Which with my mods means the car is barely driveable). When I attempt to pull trouble codes either with a paper clip or my EASE scan tool, I get no saved codes. If I attempt to scan or use the paper clip without shutting down the engine, I get no code or connectivity to the scan tool.

The other day I was driving around with the tool scanning properly and the check engine light suddenly came on. When this happened the scan tool lost its connection. A minute later the light went away and the scan just picked up where it left off. My mechanic has been checking all the grounds and has been looking at the wiring but nothing concrete yet.

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Old Jun 2, 2006 | 07:23 PM
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It sounds like a loose connection somewhere to me. You will probably need the scan tool connected when the SES light comes on to catch it.
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Per the 2nd paragraph, it happened while I was driving with the scan tool scanning and then the connection interrupted when the light came on. When the light went out, it began to scan normally again. No code was ever presented or saved
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