Re: Re: RE: a little help please

From: Eric (huffy340@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 10 2009 - 01:22:13 EDT


That's consistent with mine: it's early 99 (bought in Oct 98) and
the key method does not work.

Eric

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:10:18 -0600 Bernd D. Ratsch wrote:

>
> 1996, 1997, Late 1999 and 2000-2001 models it seems to work....I
> know that the '98 models have issues with the key on/off method.
>
> - Bernd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jon@dakota-truck.net [mailto:jon@dakota-truck.net]
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:25 PM
> To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
> Subject: Re: DML: Re: RE: a little help please
>
>
> "Biff Byrum" <bbyrum9@foothill.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure, I've been under the impression that 1996 to ?
> > Mopars don't support that as far as the PCM readouts go. I
> > thought that the key method only gives you the instrument panel
> > readout. I know it didn't work in the past on a friend's 1996
> > Grand Cherokee, or another friend's 1998 Laramie 4x4. Am I
> > mistaken? Biff
>
>
> I think this is something of a grey area. There appears to be
> a period (with the Dakota anyway) somewhere around '97-99 where
> this doesn't seem to work on some trucks, but others have claimed
> it does, I dunno if it has ever been nailed down for sure. I do
> know that it works on my 1996.
>
> See here for some more info as well as possible sequences to
> pull the codes (doesn't hurt to try):
>
> http://www.dakota-truck.net/codes/
>
>
> If any of those work for you, please let us know.
>
>
> --
> -Jon-
>
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> | '96 Kolb Firefly, '96 Suzuki Intruder, Miscellaneous Mopars |
> `-------------------------------- http://www.jonsteiger.com --'
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>
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