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Technical => Electrical Tech => Topic started by: 87fordboy on December 13, 2006, 03:33:34 PM

Title: speedo question
Post by: 87fordboy on December 13, 2006, 03:33:34 PM
a friend of mine told me about this thing u do to the speedometer. like you press 3 of the 4 buttons like E/M, Reset Trip and Trip. and something will happen he said itll start throwin codes at you or somethin like that
Title: speedo question
Post by: thunderjet302 on December 14, 2006, 12:40:30 AM
If you press trip and trip reset it'll make the service light go away:grinno:
Title: speedo question
Post by: MasterBlaster on December 14, 2006, 08:50:14 AM
Copied from my archives of the "old" site, compliments of [COLOR="Red"]jcassity[/COLOR]

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enter test mode my holding the TRIP RESET button and then turn
the ign switch on.

Cycle thru the tests by pressing the TRIP RESET button. A steady
ton on each with the capital letter "P" being displayed is a passing
test. NO tone with the letter "F" displayed means a test has
failed.

^^note,, no tone and the letter F doesnt actually mean the speedo
has failed. there are further steps involved to reason out why the
step has failed.
Title: speedo question
Post by: jcassity on December 16, 2006, 07:42:19 PM
its neat,, the speedo itself has its very own on board diagnostic mode and various associated codes if there is a problem.  Comes in handy if you are all digi dash.  It allows you to troubleshoot the entire dash cluster. and the speedo.