Whenever I needed this, I take my truck to Jiffy Lube and have them read the
codes. They've done this for free for me the last three times. Only once,
did I get an oil change at the same time.
-- Chris Reck Bloomington, IL'99 Dakota Sport + CC 4x4 V6 (Deep Amethyst) Shaved and polished V8 TB, Autolite 3923, 180 Thermostat, 7.5mm Bosch plug wires, Custom K&N 6x9 air intake, Rancho RSX shocks, Pioneer full audio system, Jet Stage 1 Chip, BF Goodrich 32x11.5r15 T/A KO tires ""Eric Hufstedler"" <mopar@ehuffy.com> wrote in message news:17824.63.118.61.190.1113514405.squirrel@webmail5.pair.com... > >> That's only for the cluster. Key-ON 3-times doesn't work for '98 models >> either. >> >> - Bernd > > Doesn't work for the 99, either. Doe the key-on 10 times trick work for > 99? > > I can't believe they took out that feature. What a way to make people > mad, eh? > > Eric > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net >> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Eric >> Hufstedler >> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:10 AM >> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net >> Subject: Re: DML: Dakota Diagnostics >> >> >>> Depending on the model year of your Dak, it is also possible to get >>> the codes for free, without buying anything, using the "key on/off" >>> method. See http://www.dakota-truck.net/codes for details. >> >>>From that page: >> ----------- >> How to get the codes on a 1998-1999 Dakota: >> Depress the trip reset and trip/odometer switches, and, while holding >> them, turn the ignition to ON/RUN, and wait about 5 seconds. This sends >> the >> car through a short self-test sequence that lights all segments of the >> odometer and shift selector read-out (where applicable). It will then >> display the stored error codes. >> ----------- >> >> I believe that this only gives codes for the gage cluster. Has anyone >> ever >> retrieved a "normal" error code using this method? >> >> Thanks, >> eric >> >
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