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Anybody know how long it takes for the check engine light to come off when ever you have like wires wired to your gear shift something ?i had screens and an alarm wired up to it and my check engine light came on so i was like ****.... i ahd it re wired but now they wun me to go to Honda to get the light reset for 80 bucks or wait 40 driving cycles!!!! what the **** is 40 driving cycles.....I already paid once to have the ****ing thing dynoed and there was nothing wrong wit just the wiring was done wrong and they charged me 80 bucks..so i jsut ain't wanna do it again!! But yea what's 40 driving cycles?

 
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Isnt there a DIY here or is that just for the SRS light? I know people have turned the light off on their own, I just dont know how.

 
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That DIY is the SRS you're talking about Nero.

Try unplugin the battery to reset your ECU. Leave it off for 10mins-15mins then plug it back in. Do it in this sequence:
- Turn on the car without stepping on the gas.
- Turn off the car.
- Turn on the car without stepping on the gas.
- Turn off the car.
- Turn on the car.

You should not have the Engine light OFF now. BUT if the light comes back on, then you may have a sensor problem. Check around for another auto place and run an ECU report to see what is the problem.

 
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unplugging the battery would only make the check engine light go off for volatile memory set into the pcm... if it is a hard code set into it then it would not go away... and the procedure listed would only be good for the maintenance reminder light... and that's the wrong procedure to do it also =P... but i would go to a shop and have them extract a code from the pcm and go from there... otherwise you wont know what the problem is.... and drive cycles are full trips made in ur car and all the obdII code trip monitors have run their tests .... so you would have to go somewhere in ur car perferably at speeds over 40 for around 15 mins and that would be one drive cycle... it usually takes around 4-5 months to fully go through about 60 drive cycles.. i work at a shop and this is what i tell my customers