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Foretravel Motorhome Forums => Foretravel Tech Talk => Topic started by: sedelange on September 08, 2017, 12:12:38 am

Title: Check engine light.
Post by: sedelange on September 08, 2017, 12:12:38 am
Check engine went off.  Pulled over and checked VMS.  There were no diagnostic messages captured.  Since I was 40 miles from anywhere I drove on to Abilene.  When I stopped, I shut down engine.  On restart there was no check engine light. Any ideas what would trigger a check engine light, but not capture an error code?
Title: Re: Check engine light.
Post by: Michelle on September 08, 2017, 07:48:22 am
The error code could have been there, just not as one of the PIDs that VMSpc was monitoring.

If the engine is running and the CEL is illuminated, you can use the under-dash switches to capture blink codes as well.
Title: Re: Check engine light.
Post by: Roger & Susan in Home2 on September 08, 2017, 10:46:59 am
Steve,
On VMSpc when you click on Diagnostics on the menu be sure to click on View History to see what is there as well. They may not stay in the Recent Events list very long.