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Old 08-11-2013, 06:55 PM
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\do trouble shooting codes erase by themselves or do I have to do something I aalready fix the problems that it had according to those codes
 
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You need to have the codes removed if you don't have the means to do so.
 
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some codes are "soft codes" and others are "hard codes". soft codes go away after so many key cycles. hard codes can only be removed with a scan tool.
 
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The codes will be removed after a certain amount of drive cycles If the issue was resolved.
 
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