Thread: clear codes

Originally Posted by Toasty

if pending code meant what you'd think of 'pending' ... our cars would be psychic!

Not really. Pending codes were set when the system ran a test or detected something was wrong and it would set it as a pending code until it occurred over so many driving cycles then it would become the active code and trip the SES light.

There are many of the codes that take, an infraction if you will, to occur over so many driving cycles before the SES light comes on. Others will set the SES light immediately.

I can see it being called a stored code if it has not tripped the SES light, but an active code is not a pending code.