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Old Apr 14, 2001 | 07:09 PM
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I took my car to the Nissan dealer yesterday and they serviced my vehicle the usual way change oil,oil filter and new oil and checked everything...I have a 97 GXE with 55,000 miles then yesterday I cleaned my throttle body with injection spray and now my service engine soon light just stays on....can I do something to get it to go off or does the dealer have to do it...or there is a reason why it just stays...on....thank you in advance
Old Apr 14, 2001 | 07:16 PM
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Gasp!

William! You don't the answer to this one? Shame on you!

Anyways... check out this link:

http://vbxmaxima.8m.com/ecu.html
Old Apr 14, 2001 | 07:21 PM
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Originally posted by metallic97gxe
I took my car to the Nissan dealer yesterday and they serviced my vehicle the usual way change oil,oil filter and new oil and checked everything...I have a 97 GXE with 55,000 miles then yesterday I cleaned my throttle body with injection spray and now my service engine soon light just stays on....can I do something to get it to go off or does the dealer have to do it...or there is a reason why it just stays...on....thank you in advance
The Service Engine Soon light (a/k/a Check Engine Light) is evidence that something is wrong. That "something" may be any number of things, some major and some minor. It might be nothing more than a loose fuel filler cap. The Engine Control Module (the computer) detected a problem and turned on the Check Engine Light. At the same time it stored one or more Diagnostic Trouble Codes. Get someone to do a DTC readout for you. This is not a big deal, does not require specialized "dealer only" test equipment, and should take less than an hour. When you know the stored DTCs, you will have a fair idea of what repairs are needed. If you like to do your own "wrenching" you can do the DTC readout for yourself.

You will find instructions to do a DTC readout and reset
the Check Engine light at:
http://vbxmaxima.8m.com/ecu.html

The DTC "translations" are found at:
http://vbxmaxima.8m.com/ecudecoder.html
Old Apr 14, 2001 | 07:27 PM
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