I got an 99 ford explorer(We call her Dora). Anywho's my check engine light came on this morning. Is there a way to pull the codes on these without a scan tool. You know like on the first chevys where you could short the A & B terminal to get them to flash the codes. Any help would be great.

Code scanner is the only way I know to get the codes off of an OBD-2 vehicle.

Thats what I thought but I wanted to see if anyone new a trick. Guess I'll have to go down to O'reilly's and have them hook it up. I think I'd rather cut my penis off with a dull butter knife then go talk to them but I don't feel like spending $1500 to update my snap-on scanner.

Heh...You said, "penis".

Sorry didn't mean to be so vulgar.

You can buy one of the cheap OBD-2 scanners for around 80 bucks I think.

What?! Something TWAT doesnt sell?!?

No, there is an O'reilly's next door....and we already have 2 and 1 that doesnt work.

I can't imagine what could possibly be wrong it only has 198000 miles on it.

Probably an O2 sensor...

That's kinda what I was thinking. Time for a 460 swap.

same here

what an exploder with almost 200k on it and it hasn't unleashed its feary on the road yet


side note

I dated a gal with one of them damn things and one of the last argumet ended with me saying "I'm not working on that peice of shot unless you get better in bed" needless to say I never worked on it

Don't knock Dora she's a good little vehicle. Went to Oreilly's today. They are not allowed to hook up the code reader, they just hand it to you and say have fun. The first one didn't work so I went back in. The second one worked. Showed a code like 0171 and 0174, running to lean bank 1 and 2. Cleared the codes they havn't come back up yet. Idunno.