Recent content by yinhole

Hello: I recently replaced my battery and have only put 30 miles on the car since. I need to smog the vehicle but do not know the relevant drive cycle so that the car will smog. Does anyone know the drive cycle or where I would find that? Thanks!

Before I replaced my o2 sensors, my tach was all over the place. Since I've replaced them, all is working. Give it a shot if all else fails.

UPDATE: Paid $110 for new Denso o2 sensors and passed CA emissions. The Runner lives to see another day. Replacement did not, however, fix the VSC/TRAC lights, but as mentioned in another thread, I got the sensors mixed up because I didn't know that the V6 and V8 have different placement for...

Crap Oh darn it. I just swapped mine this past weekend but I have the V6 so I got this wrong. Have I done any damage to o2 sensors? Car has less than 20 miles since I put in new Densos. Luckily it should take me about 30 minutes to set up and replace them since I just did it.

Failed smog Hi all: Newb here in CA. I have a 04 with 199,500 miles. CEL, VSAC, TRAC lights are all on. Failed CA emissions test recently with P0420 and P0430 codes. Shop I went to is suggesting replacing all cats, which is crazy expensive. Anyhow, gonna try the gas cap, o2 sensors, and...