Okay, I read the drive cycle instructions on how to reset the OBD catalytic converter readiness monitor for my 2002 Toyota Sienna. Something about patting your head and rubbing your belly while hopping on one foot and saying the alphabet backwards. Well, not exactly but close enough.
I live in Orange County, California, basically a metropolitan area. Part of the instructions say hop on the highway and drive at 50 mph for 5 minutes then COAST down to 20 mph without using your break.
Then in another part of the process you repeat that driving at 50 for 2 or 3 minutes and then you repeat the coasting thing.
We don't have any surface roads out here where I'm going to be able to drive for 5 minutes straight at 50 miles an hour. So that leaves the freeway.
Now on a weekend I can get away with doing that If I drive in the far right lane and put a sign on my back window saying CAR UNDER REPAIR so people don't get too [censored] off that I'm going so dang slow and they know just to go around. I've done that kind of thing before and it has worked out okay.
But there's no way that I'm going to be able to do that coasting down business. My cars is a pretty good coaster. If I'm going 50 miles an hour and I take my foot off the gas it might take me over a mile to get down to 20. So no way am I going to be able to pull THAT off on the freeway?
So my question is, outside of that official version on how to reset that monitor, do you guys know of any other method that works?
I live in Orange County, California, basically a metropolitan area. Part of the instructions say hop on the highway and drive at 50 mph for 5 minutes then COAST down to 20 mph without using your break.
Then in another part of the process you repeat that driving at 50 for 2 or 3 minutes and then you repeat the coasting thing.
We don't have any surface roads out here where I'm going to be able to drive for 5 minutes straight at 50 miles an hour. So that leaves the freeway.
Now on a weekend I can get away with doing that If I drive in the far right lane and put a sign on my back window saying CAR UNDER REPAIR so people don't get too [censored] off that I'm going so dang slow and they know just to go around. I've done that kind of thing before and it has worked out okay.
But there's no way that I'm going to be able to do that coasting down business. My cars is a pretty good coaster. If I'm going 50 miles an hour and I take my foot off the gas it might take me over a mile to get down to 20. So no way am I going to be able to pull THAT off on the freeway?
So my question is, outside of that official version on how to reset that monitor, do you guys know of any other method that works?