Check engine(idiot) light

[huntnphool]

The good ole boy club on this forum is getting ridiculous.If someone dont hunt with you they are wrong in all their opinions right.,I see that with a few on here now oh well.I will probably get another warning from a mod because someone wants to poke at another member of the forum thats not part of the club.(H2OHUNTER).Why is it that some people can say anything to others about anything on this forum but if you say something to one in the club you get a warning?

 In this case Steve you are dead wrong......Guaranteed!

 I just went into my garage and hooked a battery back up in one of my cars that's been sitting unhooked for a week. Fired up the car and the right bank check engine light is still on, code still reads on my scanner as well........just a FYI!

[stevemiller]

Wow this went side ways, its funny how people who do not work day in and day out for years and years in a trade comment about how we are wrong....

Just an FYI a hard fault will not clear no matter how long you leave a battery disconnected, or touch wires together (love that, don't let the smoke out) or even with a scan tool regardless if it is 29.95 special glove box one or a 10k scanner that reads live data etc......it may clear on the dash as you command it but as soon as you start the vehicle, dont even have to drive it it will come back (hard fault). ( in know, whats a hard fault?)
Oh and BTW by clearing codes etc at home you also may be hindering a tech if you need thier book smarts to help diagnose the problem due to you clearing freeze frame data....but hey what do we know anyways....
Coach is right in the ball park, those trucks or near that year (sorry i don't have my book in front of me  ) have a TSB for an updated evap purge valve and a relocate proceedure...

I said exactly this earlier about them not being able to get them.Now back to the topic,What do you mean the techs cant get them If I unhook the battery?Are you now saying that yes unhooking the battery clears the codes.Hard codes are a diff. subject.

[stevemiller]

The good ole boy club on this forum is getting ridiculous.If someone dont hunt with you they are wrong in all their opinions right.,I see that with a few on here now oh well.I will probably get another warning from a mod because someone wants to poke at another member of the forum thats not part of the club.(H2OHUNTER).Why is it that some people can say anything to others about anything on this forum but if you say something to one in the club you get a warning?

 In this case Steve you are dead wrong......Guaranteed!

 I just went into my garage and hooked a battery back up in one of my cars that's been sitting unhooked for a week. Fired up the car and the right bank check engine light is still on, code still reads on my scanner as well........just a FYI!

Because you started it and the problem still exists 

[stevemiller]

Im done I tried to help and if you can be honest with yourself all I said was you can do it and the rest of you started the arguments about what I said.

[stevemiller]

I am not much of a gear head. I have a 2007 Chevy 2500  6 litre gasoline truck. Is there any way to reset or disable the check engine light without taking it to a professional?  I have heard about some kind of reader thing that you plug in and it tells you why the light is on/ gives you a code. 
Like I said, don't know much about this kind a thing, If I need to buy the reader thing(or something else) what is it that I would need to buy?

Thanks all.

To simply answer the question YES,you can by yourself reset the computer takes 1 min. UNHOOK BATTERY,leave off 1 min. codes are all clear,UNTIL YOU RUN IT AGAIN LONG ENOUGH THAT IT GOES OFF AGAIN. lol.If you fix the problem yourself unplug battery 1 min. and drive,if you did the right stuff your done.

MY FIRST POST IN THIS THREAD

[stevemiller]

I am not much of a gear head. I have a 2007 Chevy 2500  6 litre gasoline truck. Is there any way to reset or disable the check engine light without taking it to a professional?  I have heard about some kind of reader thing that you plug in and it tells you why the light is on/ gives you a code. 
Like I said, don't know much about this kind a thing, If I need to buy the reader thing(or something else) what is it that I would need to buy?

Thanks all.

To simply answer the question YES,you can by yourself reset the computer takes 1 min. UNHOOK BATTERY,leave off 1 min. codes are all clear,UNTIL YOU RUN IT AGAIN LONG ENOUGH THAT IT GOES OFF AGAIN. lol.If you fix the problem yourself unplug battery 1 min. and drive,if you did the right stuff your done.

Yes and no.  Some, very few , will clear when disconnecting the battery. OBDII latches codes and some codes can't be cleared without a code reader.

please name some,my suv to name one OBDII one of the most difficult to deal with even clears.I have worked on cars all sorts for years and havent had one not reset yet from unhooking battery for 1 min.

My second (only thing changed was my type of vehicle)

[stevemiller]

lol  For 300k 400k Better not ever be an engine light lol

My 3rd HMMMM what have I said so far that was against the rules?

[stevemiller]

I doubt it they seem to be book smart only lol.

4th. no names not all techs are members of this forum and I dont even know who is or is not a tech on this site.

[stevemiller]

lol  For 300k 400k Better not ever be an engine light lol

I can guarantee you from 18 years in the car fixin' business that there are lots of cars that won't clear codes by disconnecting the battery.
All that is pointless anyway, because if all you're doing is clearing the code and not fixing the problem, 98% of the time the light is going to come back on anyway. On the 2% that don't come back on, the light would have gone off on it's own eventually.

I can guarantee you and anyone else that wants truth that if you unhook all batteries on all vehicles for a period of time at most 3 hours all codes will be gone and a service tech will not be able to pull any codes from the vehicle until they trip again. also I said it will only be temp before it comes on again if its not fixed. But if you fix the problem yourself at home in your driveway and the battery is unplugged the entire time and the vehicle is fixed it does not NEED TO BE CLEARED BY A DIAGNOSTIC MACHINE. Guaranteed.

Next,HMMM I am starting to see who is arguing.I usually tell people that during a discussion the party that is wrong is the only one arguing. 

[Woodchuck]

And the last 8 posts are you. 

[Buckmark]

Wow this went side ways, its funny how people who do not work day in and day out for years and years in a trade comment about how we are wrong....

Just an FYI a hard fault will not clear no matter how long you leave a battery disconnected, or touch wires together (love that, don't let the smoke out) or even with a scan tool regardless if it is 29.95 special glove box one or a 10k scanner that reads live data etc......it may clear on the dash as you command it but as soon as you start the vehicle, dont even have to drive it it will come back (hard fault). ( in know, whats a hard fault?)
Oh and BTW by clearing codes etc at home you also may be hindering a tech if you need thier book smarts to help diagnose the problem due to you clearing freeze frame data....but hey what do we know anyways....
Coach is right in the ball park, those trucks or near that year (sorry i don't have my book in front of me  ) have a TSB for an updated evap purge valve and a relocate proceedure...

I said exactly this earlier about them not being able to get them.Now back to the topic,What do you mean the techs cant get them If I unhook the battery?Are you now saying that yes unhooking the battery clears the codes.Hard codes are a diff. subject.

First off, you are not a tech, maybe some car lot wrench but in no way a tech with any experience or knowledge based on your posts.
Second off as has been stated some vehicles will clear MIL (you know what that is right?) with battery power interrupted, and some may not, some need to wait for certain modules to go to sleep (am i losing you?) i never said that disconnecting a battery wont clear faults, but not every vehicle will clear....What i said was by clearing a fault by whatever means (power interruption or by a forced clear with a scan tool) you are also erasing freeze frame data that can be valuable to techs in diagnosing a problem...you do know what freeze frame data is?

[stevemiller]

And the last 8 posts are you. 

You caught that huh woodblock?

[grundy53]

This thread has run it's course.