Ford V10 engine light
Today traveling thru LA and Az in the 65 mph winds and dust my cruise went off and check engine light came on for a second or so three times also lost power for a second or so each time. This was d...
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Gdetrailer wrote:
The two lights have completely unrelated fault reporting AND the wrench in no way shape or form will set ANY CODES.
A flashing wrench or solid wrench will DISABLE YOUR GAS PEDAL on vehicles equipped with electronic throttle body (AKA drive by wire or Drive by electric).
Wow, you sound pretty confident in those statements. Is your knowledge based on experience with one or two vehicles or are you an experienced tech?
Myself, I'm far from an expert but have had two experiences with two different vehicles that refute what you have stated. On one vehicle (2003 Ford Explorer) I had a check engine light that flashed under acceleration. It did not stay lit. It did, however, store a code that I was able to read with my $39 code reader. The code indicated a misfire in a specific cylinder. I suspected a bad coil, so I switched the coil to another cylinder. The code switched to that same cylinder so I replaced the coil, problem solved.
The other experience was a solid wrench light on a 2006 Ford Escape hybrid, which is definitely drive by wire. It did not disable my gas pedal, and it did in fact set a code. However, the code was proprietary to Ford and could not be read by a common OBD-II code reader.
