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Harvard
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Jan 01, 2014

2004 E450 V10 Dash Test Mode

I was by accident holding in the Odometer "Select/Reset" button while I turned on the key and that sequence put the dash in some sort of test and read out mode. First test is a sweep of all guages, then release the button to move onto the next test etc etc... the second test is to test all dash idiot lights and so on. You move from one test to the next by pushing the button. Eventually it wraps around to the starting position of the sweep of the guages. You just turn off the key to exit at any time.

The displayed data is very cryptic but it looks like it reads out the current position of all the available sensors. Some of the readings appear to be in Hexadecimal format but the labels are very cryptic.

Does anyone know if there is a cross reference document available to decipher the cryptic stuff?

TIA