Debonair23 |
04-02-2005 11:28 AM |
Service Engine Soon Light
Well if you don't already know, I have a 96 3.8L V6 Camaro. For almost the last year now, the check engine light has been on. When it started a year ago, it would come on and stay on for a few hours. I noticed that it usually went out shortly after getting on the freeway for my return trip home. After a month or so, it just stayed on constantly and would never go out.
Now I need to go get the car smogged and I'm told that it won't pass with that darn light on! So my question is, what do you think I should do about it?
Autozone wants a 180 dollar deposit to borrow their scan tool and I don't have a credit card for them to take money off of and put it back onto. I only have a debit card so I guess they would have to take the money off and then give me cash back or something which I don't really want. I'm not sure what other places want.
Is there any way just to disable that one check engine light? I'm not sure if I want to clear the trouble codes. Does anyone know how long it stores trouble codes for? If it stores it for a long time (a few years or more), then I may want to keep them there so I can hook a scan tool up one day and see what all went on before I purchased the car.
If anyone knows where I could buy or loan a scan tool for cheap, that would be great!
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