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http://z.about.com/d/autorepair/1/0/o/F/42140733.gif

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Well, i really dont want to take it to a shop, im a kid, so dont really know all that much although i have come a long way since last yr, ill try it, im pretty sure ive tried it before but that diagram helps alot thanks!

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Hey! you got a problem with me cause I got a $10,000 scanner??? (Scanner I said. Code readers do that, just read codes. Scanner shows me the operation of sensors and switches and test) It may have cost more than a paper clip and can not fit in my glove box but it has gone as far as to tell me stuff like the time a shift soleniod set a code and that the guy was speeding when it happened. (I could have gotten him in trouble withhis boss) And code readers are cheap. Start around $25. Ebay always has them for sale on there.

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For obd1?

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Ahhhh, I love freeze frame data. I just did some tune up work on a Grand Am. Few days later the girl comes by complaining the CE light is on, must be because of my work. Ok, free check, who knows. Maybe I did make a mistake, it happens.

114 mph with a P0300....Ahhhh, hun, you might want to stay off the speed limiter with that poor Grand Am.....

Suddenly she remembered she was on the Interstate (ya right, I system is a ways away) and was in fast moving heavy traffic (ya right, I system traffic stay above 100) and it did start to cut out when she was going that fast. :D

Gotta love it.

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http://www.partsamerica.com/ProductD...egoryCode=3389
Here is one but really a paper clip works well and is cheaper. But if you look at the link tou will see a place where it says download manual. Do that and maybe it will give you an idea of what it does and how to read the flashes.

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so all im doin is turning the car on, not engine just electronics and putting a clip in a/b and watch?

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Ya, Key on, Engine off.

Count flashes.

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k ill try that

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well i did it, got the light went on, pause for a few seconds, then went on pause two faster flashes then stop, like 15 sec later repeated...