No codes. I bought a code reader off Amazon but won't be here till Wednesday. The thing is there is no check engine light that comes on. I get a "wrench" that lights up but as soon as you turn the vehicle off then back on it is as if nothing ever happened and nothing is lit up anymore so no code to be had until it actually happens.
Check engine lights and codes aren't necessarily related. Depends on the programming.
Codes are programmed for the four following conditions when the condition is set.
1. MIL on first error
2. MIL on second error
3. No MIL light
4. No Error reported (code not logged)
Additionally, the SES enable must be tagged to it, otherwise no check engine light.
MIL = Malfunction Indicator Lamp
SES = Service Engine Soon
So a code can still be thrown, in cases 2-4, without the check engine light coming on. In case 2, a second error would cause it to illuminate, but that's cleared on an ignition cycle.
If it's tagged a 3, then the code is stored but no check engine light.
But for something that's causing a reduced power mode, the check engine light would most likely be set.
So when it messes up, does it stay at a fixed 1000RPM, basically idling, or when pressing the gas do the RPMs vary.
BTW,
Some old MS humor. Appropriate since Ford's sync software is developed by MS.
At a computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release (by Mr. Welch himself) stating:
If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason at all, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuver such as a left-turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, and you would have to reinstall the engine.
4. When your car died on the freeway for no reason, you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought 'Car95' or 'CarNT', and then added more seats.
6. Apple would make a car powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five per cent of the roads.
7. Oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single 'general car default' warning light.
8. New seats would force every-one to have the same size butt.
9. The airbag would say 'Are you sure?' before going off.
10. Occasionally, for no reason, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grabbed the radio antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of road maps from Rand-McNally (a subsidiary of GM), even though they neither need them nor want them. Trying to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 per cent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
12. Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You would press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.
