Oregon Emissions Test today = "Unready"
Ran the L663 through the emissions place today and the OBDII port wouldn't connect to their system.
So I backed up, they hooked up up in another lane, and it connected but came back as "unready". O2 sensor, EVAP, etc -- all of the stuff seems to show as unready.
How fun.
What's a drive cycle consist of on one of these?
Car is fine, no fault codes, battery is original but has not been disconnected (or jumped ever) since I installed the bull bar last January 2023. The lady at the place suggested my battery had been disconnected.
I was in there messing around with GapIID tool awhile ago in December (?), but didn't reset fault codes.
So I backed up, they hooked up up in another lane, and it connected but came back as "unready". O2 sensor, EVAP, etc -- all of the stuff seems to show as unready.
How fun.
What's a drive cycle consist of on one of these?
Car is fine, no fault codes, battery is original but has not been disconnected (or jumped ever) since I installed the bull bar last January 2023. The lady at the place suggested my battery had been disconnected.
I was in there messing around with GapIID tool awhile ago in December (?), but didn't reset fault codes.
Last edited by nashvegas; Jan 30, 2024 at 06:01 PM.
Interesting set of failures noted. It would seem at first glance to be half the emissions system. It really does have a right and left half, both catalyst and O2 sensors. One could almost say there was a loose connector, but then the car would not be driving very well at all. The EGR and fuel system faults can be related to a leak in the air system that sucks in the fuel vapors to the EGR route to put all that gas back in the manifold to be, hopefully combusted.
Then, there is a computer related fault possibility. Codes are stored and are not necessarily dynamic. Some codes can be reset by our code scanners and others, not so much so. You may have inadvertently set up some faults that got recorded and are not being reset. You may really need the dealer to do a global system reset to erase them all and then see what resurfaces, if anything. Frankly, this kind of computer fault is perhaps the worst. Nothing visible, just code gone awry. Then you are at the mercy of the factory and their software. I have, in the past, had to replace a computer for something like this. Then again, it was. a VW and quite possibly the most unreliable vehicle I ever owned. The VW Vanagon Westphalia Syncro, wait no it really wasn't the worst, the 911 was the worst. It just gave the illusion it was tough and capable, but it wasn't. The 911 was just a pile of poorly engineered crappy parts coded to fail, pretty much continuously. It seemed to know what your bank balance was, so it could drain it. Back to the point the VW's Digifant computer got some bad, lets call them codes, since codes where not really a thing pre-canbus. Anyhow it was simple and cheap to just toss the stupid thing and pull another out of some other dismal 80's junkyard VW.
I hope the dealer has a fix for you.
Then, there is a computer related fault possibility. Codes are stored and are not necessarily dynamic. Some codes can be reset by our code scanners and others, not so much so. You may have inadvertently set up some faults that got recorded and are not being reset. You may really need the dealer to do a global system reset to erase them all and then see what resurfaces, if anything. Frankly, this kind of computer fault is perhaps the worst. Nothing visible, just code gone awry. Then you are at the mercy of the factory and their software. I have, in the past, had to replace a computer for something like this. Then again, it was. a VW and quite possibly the most unreliable vehicle I ever owned. The VW Vanagon Westphalia Syncro, wait no it really wasn't the worst, the 911 was the worst. It just gave the illusion it was tough and capable, but it wasn't. The 911 was just a pile of poorly engineered crappy parts coded to fail, pretty much continuously. It seemed to know what your bank balance was, so it could drain it. Back to the point the VW's Digifant computer got some bad, lets call them codes, since codes where not really a thing pre-canbus. Anyhow it was simple and cheap to just toss the stupid thing and pull another out of some other dismal 80's junkyard VW.
I hope the dealer has a fix for you.
Ran the L663 through the emissions place today and the OBDII port wouldn't connect to their system.
So I backed up, they hooked up up in another lane, and it connected but came back as "unready". O2 sensor, EVAP, etc -- all of the stuff seems to show as unready.
How fun.
What's a drive cycle consist of on one of these?
Car is fine, no fault codes, battery is original but has not been disconnected (or jumped ever) since I installed the bull bar last January 2023. The lady at the place suggested my battery had been disconnected.
I was in there messing around with GapIID tool awhile ago in December (?), but didn't reset fault codes.
So I backed up, they hooked up up in another lane, and it connected but came back as "unready". O2 sensor, EVAP, etc -- all of the stuff seems to show as unready.
How fun.
What's a drive cycle consist of on one of these?
Car is fine, no fault codes, battery is original but has not been disconnected (or jumped ever) since I installed the bull bar last January 2023. The lady at the place suggested my battery had been disconnected.
I was in there messing around with GapIID tool awhile ago in December (?), but didn't reset fault codes.
Last edited by TotallyDef; Jan 31, 2024 at 10:55 AM.
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