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USING EMISSIONS USING EMISSIONS DRIVE CYCLES TO DRIVE CYCLES TO VERIFY REPAIRS VERIFY REPAIRS BY BOB PATTENGALE Your OBD II diagnosis and repair efforts can’t be considered complete until you’re certain you’ve satisfied the needs of two masters. Satisfying the PCM first will make it much easier to satisfy the customer second. ou’ve just finished clear- to road test the vehicle? Are you going ing diagnostic trouble to take a quick trip around the block codes (DTCs), turning and call it good if the MIL doesn’t off the malfunction indi- come back on? Will you run a com- cator light (MIL) and plete generic OBD II drive cycle, until Ycompleting what you the Inspection and Maintenance (IM) hope is a solid diagnostic repair. What readiness monitors are complete? Or you do next will determine whether the will you perform a manufacturer-specific repair was successful. For most techni- DTC drive cycle? cians, the proper next step is road-test- Why does it matter? Only because it ing the vehicle to verify the repair. might mean the difference between a The question is, how are you going successful repair and a potential come- Photoillustration: Harold Perry; photos: Wieck Media Jupiter Images 36 March 2009 March 2009 37 USING EMISSIONS DRIVE CYCLES back! The way you road-test a vehicle module (PCM) is in charge and always performed road test will ensure suc- will ultimately determine if the repair gets the final say, so you must make cess and reveal hidden issues masked was successful. The powertrain control sure the PCM is happy. A properly by the initial fault. If you have any exp