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Trouble Getting Engine Codes to Appear

Old Aug 31, 2010 | 01:33 PM
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My wife has a 2006 Durango Limited 5.7L

Recently through a check engine light.

read on here how to get the codes to pop up in the odometer and I spent about 15 minutes trying to get them to appear.

Suddenly when I was just about to give up, it showed up, but didn't do the DONE portion, just a long ---------- line .

Now, before I tried this, I did go to autozone and have them code read it, and they found nothing.

So, is it possible that this code had self cleared at some point, then reappeared?

I tried to get it to come back on via the "off/on" method but no go after that weird showing up. So I decided to just do a reset via removing the battery connection and will see if the light comes on again.

Anyone else have issues getting the code to come up?

Am I going too fast / slow when doing the On/off back and forth?
 
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Old Aug 31, 2010 | 04:28 PM
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Do you remember the trouble code number that came up?
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Old Aug 31, 2010 | 04:43 PM
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the one code that did pop up with P0406 .

Got a thread about that elsewhere, with my wife driving the vehicle after I reset the check engine light and its off for now. I may try my first real car repair here myself by replacing the EGR.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 12:10 PM
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lights back on again, so will probably change out the EGR Valve or clean it out.

Anyway, still having one heck of a time to get those codes to show up. Anyone else have some tips?
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 12:55 PM
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Auto zone will pull them for free,
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 03:37 PM
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funny thing is that when I went to autozone the first time, no codes showed up. I did the on-off routine when I got home from there and then a code showed up. I am going to do that again today, and also probably swing by autozone as well to reconfirm prior to the NFL game tonight.
 
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