Emission testing..

[Power Hungry]

That's the problem. I've had to fight for days to on some vehicles to get the OBD test monitors to complete. Others will seem to do it just driving to the grocery store. It's really weird.

[AZFX4]

Your right it's wack.

Lastnight I bought a sub and amp, well we hooked it up, and unplugged the battery. Todays last day til registration expired. I read the paper on passing drive cycle, and did everything but all the 0-60, coast to 40, ect ect... went to ADEQ, hooked me up and it said I was ready! So about 2 hours of driving and around 100 miles it was ready. Went to emissions, PASSED! COMPLETE.

Now the next problem..................... downloading custom tunes.

Got home, plugged it in, download tune 2 - 87 Perf tune. Went through the 1-4 step, then writing checksum files.. ect ect.. did the 1-4 again about alerts and records.. got to turn key off, turn key on, did that and it froze at that. Unplugged, plugged back in, said session failed and restore stock settings. Did so, redownloaded tune 2 and it went through everything and completed, now it's on tune 2. Turned truck off. Did a few things.. came back and turned truck on to go for a drive and Gryphons screen went black. This has happened many times, it's usually the fuse... I replaced the fuse, nothing... put another 1 in just to see. Nothing... with the fuse out, for some weird reason the Gryphons screen came on, but it wasn't good. It showed my 4 parameter boxes, and bottom 2 was very out of pixel, and it showed like -173.0 in both boxes, it was weird. Or -17.30 whatever that means then screen went blank. Tried another fuse.. NOTHING. Now it's black. It came BACK on without a fuse and went off.

I want to say somethings wrong with the device itself? Cause all my fuses are brand new. And it usually just turns back on. I'll retry it in a while. Let it settle... but now what could be the problem? Would you consider trading this old style for a CS and I pay the difference? Is the software in the new CS's better?

[AZFX4]

Went back out, unplugged it, plugged it back in, screen came on. Read my HEX file and started...

Now the sceen now works.. Weird.

[Power Hungry]

I'd have to say it's a connection issue with either the plug on the back of the device or with where it connects to the OBDII port. Unfortunately, I don't have any way to reuse the device or we'd find some way give you credit against a CS or CTS. I know Edge was offering some sort of upgrade credit, but not sure if they still have that. When I get back to the office, I can check with Edge and see if they're still offering anything.

Glad everything else got straightened out with the emissions testing.

Take care.

[AZFX4]

Alright thanks.

[AZTriton]

Maybe it's something with PHP tuned F-150 FX4's in Chandler, AZ but I'm having a hell of a time getting the drive cycle on my truck to be complete so I can get my emissions test done (and the state says this is the ONLY test for 1996 & newer vehicles...)
The first time I took my truck for testing, I don't think the PCM had been reset since I upgraded my EVO to a Gryphon (at least 6 months) but my system was 'NOT READY'. I reset to stock... maybe not the best decision but since my system had not been reset in a long time, sounded logical (was on the performance custom tune). I drove it at stock for 200 miles (almost all highway which is annoying since my 35" tires cause the speedo to read way low all the time) and went back and it was still not ready. I've been driving it on and off (it's not my daily driver) and even bought a scan tool. No DTC's, nothing abnormal... still not ready: EVAP, Catalyst & EGR still "incomplete". Went out and did a drive cycle for these monitors this past weekend and still "incomplete". I guess I'll have to spend money and have the dealer look at it... can't even get the EGR monitor to execute which is a pretty simple exercise of accelerating 0 to 45 at 1/2 to 3/4 throttle 3 times. Pretty annoying!

[Longshot270]

If you still have any canned tunes, they'll fix the drive cycle issue. If that doesn't work then I'd say there is something funny going on with the systems in question.