Can I read the error code using ALDL?

[Wade T. Braden]

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        Short pins A & B on the connector under the dask.  you will get a
code 12 out first and it will flash 3 times. Then if you have any error code
they will fallow.                  

At 10:09 PM 4/29/97 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello everyone!
>I've been reading everything about ALDL here, and I see that you guys want
>to get all the internal parameters from the ECU through ALDL connector.
>All I want is to know if I have then possibility of getting the error code
>in case one is generated.
>My car is Opel Ascona 2.0i, from GM, using Motronic. Other related readings
>show the possibility of getting the error code shorting a couple of wires in
>the ALDL connector, or pushing the accelerator for five times, and other 
>things like that. The last one doesn't work in my car, and I'd like to know 
>if the first one might.
>I've been looking for the ALDL, and all I found is a two wires connector 
>near the engine, and a 5 or 6 wires one under the dash (over the pedals).
>Is the last one the one I should use (if I'm able to read the code by this)?
>I know the method is shorting some pair of wires, and look at the flashes of
>the light at the dash, count them, and look up in table (I already have them),
>but, does any one how to get the light flash???
>Thanks for reading and bearing my bad english and explanation.
>Eduardo
><eduardo at ctv.es>
>
>

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