I have a 95 Camaro, 3.4 V6. Every once in a while the car will either stall and when I re-start it the idle is too high, or the SES light comes on with the car making downshift type sound when I take my foot off the gas. I ruled out vacuum leaks, o2 sensors, and idle control valve by simply replacing them all.

My next problem is.....getting the codes. I know my car has the ODB1/ODB2 issue, so I purchased a cable (from a site that mentioned the 95 Camaro code problem) that I could hook up to my laptop and sent with the cable was a CD that was supposed to have software that gathered the data. It was all crap because the only thing on the CD was links to sites where I could get software...yeah right. I had to either spend more money or the software was so confusing or just plain didn't work.

Does anyone have any ideas where I can get software to get codes, or have any suggestions on what I can do that isn't going to cost me a fortune? Either software that is simple (I don't need all the graphs and various diagnostic data that I have no idea what any of it means, lol....I just want codes), or an inexpensive code reader I can get specifically for the 95 Camaro.

I can't believe how frustrating it is just to get damn codes off this car.

 

The PCM in your car is OBDI, bud the diagnostic port is configured as OBDII. There is liitle, if any, OBDI software to run off a PC. What you need is a OBDI scanner, not a plain code reader, and an adapter cable from the OBDI scanner to the OBDII port.

 

Thanks. Do you know where I can get a scanner like that? Or should I just go to my nearest Chevy dealer? I already bought an adaptable part that the seller claimed would enable me to get the codes, and that didn't work. I am spending money and getting nothing in return and am sick of it. lol