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Self Diagnostics Mode
This guide has been around on the internet but not submitted here. The Self Diagnostics Mode gives you more information. Information will be shown in the dashboard about your engine as the actual numbers in digital. To use it, follow the steps:
- Insert Key but do not turn it on
- Press and hold the Trip Meter Reset Button
- While holding the reset button, Turn ignition until dash lights come on and continue holding the button
- Within 10 seconds, the display should change to "test" in LCD font and the needles will do a full sweeping. Release the Button
Pressing the button will now cycle through some 17 different modes. By turning off the ignition will reset to normal operation.
Information displayed:
- 1. Shows a Gauge Sweep
- 2. Shows all 8's on the LCD (LCD TEST)
- 3. Illuminates all the bulbs on the dash
- 4. Displays hexadecimal value for ROM level
- 5. Displays the hexadecimal value for EE level
- 6. Shows DTC (Diagnostic Trouble Code)
- 7. Digital Speedometer - mph
- 8. Digital Speedometer - kph (km/h)
- 9. N/A
- 10. Digital tachometer
- 11. Fuel volume
- 12. Engine coolant temperature
- 13. Battery voltage
- 14. ABS fail
- 15. Electronic brake distribution (EBD) failure
- 16. Illumination
- 17. Crank Sense