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Since you broke the black wire and repaied it, maybe all that is required is to remove the negative lead from the battery, wait a couple of minutes and then plop it back down quickly and firmly and tighten it up. Reset the entire brain of the car and see if that doesn't get the codes to clear. Think Alt-Ctrl-Del to the car.
Since you broke the black wire and repaied it, maybe all that is required is to remove the negative lead from the battery, wait a couple of minutes and then plop it back down quickly and firmly and tighten it up. Reset the entire brain of the car and see if that doesn't get the codes to clear. Think Alt-Ctrl-Del to the car.
Elmer
Thanks Elmer, I was hoping that would fix it as well and I tried that after fixing it.
When the battery is fully charged the instrument panel voltmeter should read 12.8 volts with the engine running. If not fully charged the voltage can vary quite a bit as the electrical load changes until the battery finally reaches its fully charged state. With a 12.6 Volt reading when the engine is off you may have a somewhat discharged battery. The first thing I would do is use a good battery charger (not a maintainer) to charge the battery, then disconnect the ground cable for a period of one minute to reset any codes and then see what happens. Remember U Codes usually mean one module temporarily lost communication with another module on a bus. If there are a lot of them that usually means the system voltage is too low. Here some info on U Codes and what they may or may not mean:
When the battery is fully charged the instrument panel voltmeter should read 12.8 volts with the engine running. If not fully charged the voltage can vary quite a bit as the electrical load changes until the battery finally reaches its fully charged state. With a 12.6 Volt reading when the engine is off you may have a somewhat discharged battery. The first thing I would do is use a good battery charger (not a maintainer) to charge the battery, then disconnect the ground cable for a period of one minute to reset any codes and then see what happens. Remember U Codes usually mean one module temporarily lost communication with another module on a bus. If there are a lot of them that usually means the system voltage is too low. Here some info on U Codes and what they may or may not mean:
