There’s a lot to my sordid tale so I’m going to try to be as brief and concise as possible: Car Info: 1998 Ford Taurus station wagon V6 3.0L DOHC “Service Engine Soon” light is ON. 140k miles. New spark plugs and air filter. Oil changed last week. Engine tune up and transmission flush ab…

I was wondering what had happened to you. I put in a Search for Sordid tale, and there you were. The monitors for the oxygen sensor heaters were OK, on the old PCM (engine computer). Did you still have DTCs P0135 and P0155 for them? If you did, I don’t understand that. The Catalyst Monitor is in…

Thanks for checking up on me! I do still get P0135 and P0155… Only those two… Every time. Yes, I’ve read up on PATS by now and my best bet is probably finding a local locksmith that can do them. I just have to explain my situation carefully, because it is not typical. I will call around. It is my…

On the monitors, read pages 4 thru 6 in your manual. Also (you may have seen this) read this article: http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/ho2smonitor.htm At 9;35am, my post of 8:29am, and your post of 9:01, had not shown up on the Car Talk first page, in chronological order. Did you make your response f…

I don’t what’s wrong with Car Talk… maybe you broke it. Why would you do that? OK, I’m still a little confused, but that HO2S Monitor link you provided seems quite good and I’ll use it to help me inspect all of the wiring associated with the heater wires.

Matthew, cartalk isn’t letting your posts (or, my posts) show up on the board. A couple of months ago, there was a running post to car talk about censorship". They didn’t listen to anyone. Their only real statement was that they were going to get tougher! In the past, when cartalk censored (“delete…

Oh that’s what you mean, I get it now. I have never received an email from Car Talk. So, anyone can post to this thread, but this thread will never show up on the “car questions” page even when there is a new post. All because of a ‘gosh-darn it’ or two? If they are worried about the children… how …

I read over the link provided by Hellokit, that talks about the O2 sensors. I seems to me there may be an error in the slow response code for bank 2. It shows it as the same code (P0135) as the O2 heater code. I think it should be P0153. Edit: I also wondered what was going on with this thread. I w…

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it will not work until my “Passive Anti Theft System” module is reset/reprogrammed so that it matches the configuration of the new PCM. The new PCM HAS been flashed, but it’s not one of those where you just switch the chips. So, the car will not turn over until the PATS module is taken care of. club…

I want to compliment you guys on your determination and patients.Gaping a set of ignition points is as much as I can stand.

Sordid Tale of a "Service Engine" Light

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Bugmenot September 6, 2020, 12:26am 321

The thread was continued here, but after 42 more posts the problem was still not resolved. The OP came back in June 2011 with another problem, but hasn’t been seen since.

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