I had an 1983 El Dorado, myself back in 1990. Beautiful car. Local mechanic who owned the nearest Philips 66 gas station full service garage complimented me on the purchase and said I no longer drive a car, but now drive an automobile. But one day it started having issues. Shut if off when warmed up, it wouldn't start until cooled down. Not overheating, a mechanic said it was vapor locking. But he didn't know it was fuel injected so that can't happen. After it made me miss the opening act at a Rolling Stones Concert, decided to fix it. Local community collage I graduated from had a wicked library of automobile service manuals so that's where I started. Read about the on board diagnostic system. Photo copied the info I needed and tried it out. I thought I hit the jackpot because it worked and gave me five code numbers I wrote down. Returned to college to get info on what they meant. Then the smile ran away from my face when I learned the price for the part for the first number was $500. Not until then did I consider running the scan again. So I did. This scan gave me five different numbers than the first one. Now I felt like a fool. Because i never considered the computer system would be mistaken. Nothing to lose, ran the scan a third time. Five new numbers appeared. Then I even felt like an idiot to myself knowing I trusted that thing blindly at first. Knowing in those days self diagnostic anything was always over stated and as a technician, the self diagnostic was just a sales point and checked maybe its own indicator light and that's it. Had the sequence of events and discoveries not taken place in the right order, I could see myself buying parts and replacing them with blind faith in a computer aboard a union made automobile. Which wouldn't sit well with me since I could diagnose the issue and be wrong without help any day of the week. I never bothered discovering if my system was a lemon or if all of them were prone to the same. There is no denying I certainly was grateful for it when I thought it worked. Sold the car never mentioning the system even existed and never saw it anywhere else or heard about it from anyone before or after. That was thirty five or so years ago. And believe it or not, today is the first time I have ever researched it. Never knew if it were common elsewhere, on Cadillacs, etc. The codes and details to use the system were only located on factor service manuals that had no public access if not a mechanic or in a college library where I found them. Hell, I'm not certain the year OBD I went into production vehicles nor do I have experience with OBD I much. But OBD II was standard in 1996. That El Dorado I had was 1983 same as yours. It could have been a well kept secret for dealer mechanics and service people back then and/or an experimental run to see how well it works or is accepted. It didn't work at all in the 1983 I had. Appeared to work, which is worse than being broken outright. Sent you down the wrong path on a wild goose chase. Good job on the vid, man.
@Peterbilt379LF2
Жыл бұрын
Btw it work for the 350 LT1 5.7L for the 90's generation
@Streetnamedak
2 жыл бұрын
The same exact codes that I’m pulling. Funny
@Anonamix
4 жыл бұрын
I got 13 but don't have a book.. can anyone help me out? Thanks for the vid
@bigdrinkr
7 жыл бұрын
Awesome. I didn't even know it could do that. Can you use that on the 1989 brougham too?
@kqcustom4406
7 жыл бұрын
Michael Smith yes you should be able to do that on that year specially if you got fuel injected
@yourdaddy5630
3 жыл бұрын
Great video 👍🏽a lot of people don’t know these cars can do that. Got to love these caddy’s . 90-92 brougham are equipped with this feature also
@NoCaping
5 жыл бұрын
I got 1982 cadillac eldorado imma see if this will work for me 2
@kqcustom4406
5 жыл бұрын
It should family
@19black851
7 жыл бұрын
good info learn sum new
@ghazibagazi9687
3 жыл бұрын
How do you reset code?
@abdullahfatil8425
5 жыл бұрын
what does the code 52 means ?
@brianchaplin9085BEC.
4 жыл бұрын
Code 52 is fuel cal- pak incorrect or missing.
@abdullahfatil8425
4 жыл бұрын
@@brianchaplin9085BEC. thank you
@ghazibagazi9687
3 жыл бұрын
What is 52???
@EdwardSandoval-g2d
12 сағат бұрын
mine read 15 and 52
@kqcustom4406
8 сағат бұрын
Get the book for the vehicle and it has the diagnostic problem codes in the book
@LowEnd31st
7 ай бұрын
4100 still runs? Buy a lottery ticket.
@kqcustom4406
8 сағат бұрын
lol you are right but it’s still a lot of people that have original Cadillacs with 4100 Engine They need the information.
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