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FINALLY! Cured my Mysterious SES Light!

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Old 03-28-2002, 02:43 PM
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FINALLY! Cured my Mysterious SES Light!

well after driving around with a Service Engine Soon light for about a year and 20k miles, IT'S FINALLY FIXED.

I kept pulling the codes and getting a reading saying that all three (3) Oxygen sensors were bad.
Well I swapped one for the hell of it and it still read that they were *ALL* bad.

It turns out that there is an fuse inline with the ECM (computer) that was blown.
So ALL THIS TIME it was just a friggin $2 fuse!!!
ARRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!

Well at least it's fixed now.
No more blazing yellow check engine light constantly staring me down.
 
Old 03-28-2002, 02:55 PM
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Re: FINALLY! Cured my Mysterious SES Light!

Which fuse? Where is it at?


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Old 03-28-2002, 02:55 PM
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Re: FINALLY! Cured my Mysterious SES Light!

Originally posted by My 4DSC
well after driving around with a Service Engine Soon light for about a year and 20k miles, IT'S FINALLY FIXED.

I kept pulling the codes and getting a reading saying that all three (3) Oxygen sensors were bad.
Well I swapped one for the hell of it and it still read that they were *ALL* bad.

It turns out that there is an fuse inline with the ECM (computer) that was blown.
So ALL THIS TIME it was just a friggin $2 fuse!!!
ARRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!

Well at least it's fixed now.
No more blazing yellow check engine light constantly staring me down.
congrats, bro. that would bug the hell out of me.. hahaha.
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Old 03-28-2002, 03:02 PM
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Cool deal dude at least you didnt have to get the ECU completly reprogrammed like i did and also i live in louisiana and my car is from cali and it took the dealership 3 times to reproggy my car to figure out it has cali emmisions on it... dipships it says cali on the ecu

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well after driving around with a Service Engine Soon light for about a year and 20k miles, IT'S FINALLY FIXED.

No more blazing yellow check engine light constantly staring me down.
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Old 03-28-2002, 03:08 PM
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Which fuse? Where is it at?


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Unfortunately it took a Nissan tech to figure it out.
$141.00 for a $2.00 fuse.

All i know is that it was a blown "Engine Control Fuse" for ECM.
They didnt tell me where it was located.
But i'm sure you could locate it w/ a repair manual.
 
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Not sure if its the same as 4th gen, but That happend to me and I just swapped out the fuse in the fuse panel inside the car.
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Old 03-28-2002, 05:37 PM
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I just swapped out the fuse in the fuse panel inside the car.
Oh, you mean the positive/negative were reversed...
like a flashlight battery being in backwards?


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Old 03-29-2002, 07:28 AM
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Originally posted by adman


Oh, you mean the positive/negative were reversed...
like a flashlight battery being in backwards?


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no thats not what he means...
and its different in the 5th gens...
this fuse is not located in the fuse panel...
because i suspected a fuse was the problem a while back and checked all the fuses in the panel...
they were all OK...
it must be located somewhere else..
 
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