My question is I am looking at buying a 98 Camaro SS. It has 39k miles and is very clean. The guy is askin 15k and wants me to take care of the one problem it has. The one problem is the service engine soon light is on and he assusres me its just a cat that needs to be replaced. He has a power programmer but hes currently noy sure which one he is gonna call me later today and tell me which one. Will your standard programmer tell me the trouble code? He has done some modifications to the car he has an SLP cold air intake, headers, high flow cats, and exhaust. Of corse this along with the programmer and i was wondering if this would be a good idea. Its rare to find an SS for sale with a 6 speed in such good shape and everything else seems to be good. My guess is if he is telling the truth it should cost me about 500 bucks or so to fix. So any help would be greatly appreciated cause there is another buyer who wants it. thanks for your help.

 

Have him drive the car with you to aAutoZone or some other parts store that will read the SES codes for free and find out what it is. Beware of sellers who will not give you all the facts, it could be more then one code. Even better have the car checked by mechancic that you trust before spending 15K. You don't want a money pit......even if you want that car real bad. My opinion.

 

My predator programer reads codes on my car, my friends S10, and blaser. It might just be an o2 sensor not a bad cat. My car had a few o2 sensor problems after my headers went on but a dyno tune fixed that