can anyone please tell me WTF is up with my SERVICE ENGINE SOON light?

today i turn on the car and start heading home from school, i suddenly see the CEL is on, i had driven 15 miles previous to CEL coming up today. so i come home, i grab screwdriver and pull the code. it gave me 5 long and 5 short pulses which means No Failure Recorded/Detected.
so i turn key to off mode, turn car on and the CEL is still there. so i turn car back off and pull the code again, but it gives me the same code (05 05) and this time when i turn on the car, CEL is gone !
this thing happend 1 month ago as well, it gave me 05 05, after checking the code it went off untill now. is there anything wrong with it or what? is it refering to a maintaince? (mileage is 24446).

 

R U resetting the light after you diagnose it? If you are not, you should be...
turn screw all the way right, hold for two seconds, turn all the way back, Repeat once more...start the car
voila, no more cel

 

no i didnt reset it, it just went off after i checked it. i didnt do anything after pulling the code. why does it come on anyways if there is NOTHING wrong?

 

Because you didn't reset it...

 

i havent reset it. should i do that? the light is already off!

 

Hey guys my CEL is on too. i'm not sure how to extract the codes. Do I need a special tool? Can someone please give me quick instructions. I would really appreciate it. Thank you!

 

theres a sticky about how to do this. it also gives a link to tell you what your codes mean.

enjoy

 

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=104931

 

and there it is

 

ok this thread was about my problem lol ! someone help me and explain why this is happening. any info is greatly apprciated !

 

reset it...

 

guys. the light came on today again. i noticed it only comes on after i drive on freeway (50+ mph).
but 1 thing, i think i have been pulling the code the wrong way all this time man. when i turn it to the right, it never stops, i can be sitting there and turning it for days and it wont stop ( thats what happend right now after checking it again). and it doesnt turn in a perfect circle, its my screw driver goes up and down when i turn it because the thingy that i turn is not turning on a perfect circle if u know what i mean. so it never stopped when i turned it to right, when i was turning it to the right, i just stopped at a point for 2 seconds and turned it back and noticed that it never stops when turning it to the left either. i got the code 05 05 by doing this tho and the light went off again. am i doing it correctly or not?

i took it to mechanic and he wants 30 bux to check it, should i go for it? plz tell me if im pulling the code right or wrong.

 

cool man, thanks a lot fellas

 

Doggy, I just did my the other day. You need to use something thats not as heavy as a screwdriver. I found i was having the same problem as you. I used only a flat head screwdriver bit. The bit alone worked great because you can get more of a feel for whats goin on. Turn it very slightly. For me, it went around about 2 times before hitting the stop, then turn it back and turn slightly until you feel it stop the other way.