Rude awakening with DP tuner

[BroncoHauler]

Originally Posted by mikracer

Here are a couple links I found regarding the 6.0 and readiness test. They tell you how to drive and for how long.

Ford F250 6.0 Diesel Truck Drive Cycle

Ford Motor Company Driving Cycle

OMG, who comes up with these required cycles? These are like some back-door, Trojan Horse, computer-hacker, super secret codes to break into Microsoft.


Herb

[mikracer]

Originally Posted by BroncoHauler

OMG, who comes up with these required cycles? These are like some back-door, Trojan Horse, computer-hacker, super secret codes to break into Microsoft.


Herb

I agree, they're wacky. I had to find some deserted road to be able to drive so erratically. I followed the instructions for my Tacoma and sure enough, it was "ready" the next morning when I went to get it smogged.

[daveb]

After talking with DP tuners, they said the programmer should show if any monitors had not reset and sure enough there was nothing when I checked yesterday. So I'm not sure when the EGR monitor cleared, but it did.

I thought that just going back to stock was all that had to be done. After the first re-boot of the stock program, I drove about 290 miles (normal city/highway driving) and everything cleared except the EGR. At the shop last Wed we upgraded the stock tune to Ford's latest and greatest snail-tune but the EGR still was still tripped. 100 mile drive back to home and it looks like I'm good. Double checked with a Innova reader I bought today and it also shows all clear. One thing for sure, next time smog comes up, I'm not gonna cut it so close. I copied the driving procedures onto my laptop so I'll always have those on board. After I clear smog I might do a more timely experiment to see if using the driving cycles speeds things up a bit.
Thanks for all the support & links the members supplied.

Dave

[Flux]

Glad you're back on point!! Frustrating crap for sure. Been through it with a couple vehicles.