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      02-05-2014, 01:35 PM   #15
JimD
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This is pretty much a grammatical thing but when you said you couldn't clear the code with the BT tool I think you weren't exactly right. What you meant is that you told the BT tool to clear the code and it was still there. What I think happened is the BT tool issued the command to clear the code but the condition that it was alerting you to was still present so the car threw the code again. For lots of conditions, the car response is not that quick. But it makes sense for an electrical issue to be essentially instantaneous.

The code tool doesn't fix anything, of course, it just resets the check engine light. If the condition isn't fixed, the light comes back. This light came back very quickly.

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