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I'm going to show you three easy ways to
reset your check engine light the last
way I'm going to show you is the best
way I highly recommend it but it cost
you I think around nine dollars I'll
leave a link in the video description
below alright so first thing you do is
put on your gloves you're gonna be
working on the battery when I discover
the positive terminal and the negative
positive has the red cap the negative
has the black cap I'm gonna get your
socket wrench and unscrew the nut
counterclockwise and then wiggle off
that black connection that negative
connection you want to hold off for
about 30 to 60 seconds that should clear
that check engine codes now if it
doesn't then you want to try the second
method second method is easy just put
that negative to the side make sure it's
not touching the battery press and hold
the horn that's gonna release some of
the stored energy in the car circuit or
you could turn on your headlights
that'll also release some of the stored
energy in your car circuit now if that
doesn't work then what you could do is
remove the positive terminal from the
battery connect the jumper from the
disconnected negative terminal and the
disconnected positive and hold that
jumper on it for about a few seconds and
now it also release in the stored energy
and I don't really recommend these
methods I highly recommend the next
method make sure you put everything back
together after
that jumper and warning this will reset
your car radio are the best way to check
your check engine codes and her reset
them is using the obd2 diagnostic tool
it plugs into your obd2 port under your
car most cars have it
it works with torque app Google Play
Store or if you have Apple Store it
works I think that's what Apple store to
do as well they have their own version
and only thing have to do is plug it
directly here you can leave it plugged
in it doesn't kill the battery at all I
left it plugged in for weeks on end and
never killed my battery but uh the only
thing you have to do is just I have the
extension and I leave it plugged in and
you just plug that extension in right
here just plug it into the extension and
then I have velcro it right here on the
side just like that and it connects via
bluetooth to your phone and there's
actually real time monitor turn so what
you want to do is turn on your car so
right here as you can see it turns on
the car we have the check engine light
right there you want to go into your app
click on faulty codes
and just tap here you know scan in the
car
and it tells you right here so most of
our scanners will tell you the code
it'll be a P 102 but this actually tells
you Pete 102 and actually tells you mass
or volume air flow circuit low input all
right and it does right here as well so
let's go ahead and go to my car under my
hood so of course there's something
wrong with it it's unplugged because I
unplugged it to simulate the check
engine light and so what we're gonna do
make sure the cars turned off when you
do this what you do is just plug it in
lock it in oh whatever problem you have
it could be a loose gas cap that could
be it
maybe if you got tighten your gas cap
with when you're at the gas station that
can actually trigger a check engine code
which is common if that's the case just
go to your car and you'll make sure your
gas cap is on okay so once you get back
in your car you want to make sure this
is all plugged in there's power going to
it and it's communicating to your
computer and let's try it again and you
want to turn on the app of course and
turn your car back on
all right so we still got the check
engine code even though we fixed the
issue and then you want to go back into
your
so what you want to do now is you want
to go back so what you want to do is go
back into your fault codes right here
and here's all my fault codes and so
this is actually just a record it's not
currently a fault because we actually
plugged it back in I'm going to click on
the menu button right here on the upper
right and then clear fault codes and
then click OK
and then as you can see look at me just
it disappeared as soon as we did that
and it says completed and that's how you
do it now of course if you didn't fix
the problem that you know the check
engine light will come back on but you
know if you know if it was a loose gas
cap and you tighten your gas cap it
shouldn't come back on and this is
real-time monitoring just to show you
let me read my engine
say pretty cool stuff so I highly
recommend this device it's about eight
or nine dollars on Amazon I'll leave a
link in the video description below
where to get it so if this video was
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