Recent content by NokeProtege

I have an '02 Protege and still love it. Recently I have noticed, and I may just not have been paying attention before, that occasionally it is a little tight getting it into 1st gear. It doesn't always do it, and usually if I go into 2nd and then into first it's fine, but I was wondering if...

Well, supposedly on a lot of cars you can run a jumper wire between two contacts on the OBDII port and the check engine light will flash in a sequence that you can interpret to get your DTC. I think the Protege service manual has a thing on how to interpret this.

In a lot of places I have read that the way to check your trouble codes without a handheld tool or whatnot was by using a jumper wire between two contacts on your OBDII plug. They say to do this with the car in the ON position and not actually have the engine started. Is this to prevent shock...

Wow! Many thanks.

Does anyone know if they make a Chilton or Haynes repair manual for the Gen 3 Protege? I've been looking for one for my '02 Protege.