Diacom Cable (to GMY2K) Check your DIC

[Jeff M]

Better check your DIC though, it is wired with the rest of your TGP/ECM and
will show "00" pretty soon, won't hurt anything but you do have a date and
it is one symbiotic part of your system.  My Wife's 1992 Trofeo has a very
elaborate ECM/BCM/SIR/IPC system that is absolutely astonishing being that
is  able to use the existing in-car display to show all data for many areas;
blower speed/volts in BCM (and 39 more), turn on and off individual
injectors in ECM as well as snap-shot and user override/activation (allowed
me once to find an elusive clicking noise by cycling the purge canister
solenoid and hopping under the hood to confirm the culprit and location) and
31 more.  And IPC and SIR troubleshooting but not as exciting (AND all
without a Diacom!!!).....and this system has a clock with a 4 digit year
display that may not care if there is any different time zone or such but
the clock does tic, and time will tell less I move it ahead my self ;-).

Jeff M


> Mark Romans wrote:
> >
> > GM's "Official" response is that all prior to 90 don't know what year it
is
> > anyway and all 90 and later are Y2K compliant.  (so I have been told)
>
> Eh?  You're kidding, right?  What ECM/PCM knows the year?  I didn't know
> ANY of them were equipped with an RTC.  If so, how would you reset the
> clock in the ECM if say, the battery is disconnected?  How would the ECM
> know your time zone, or compensate for Daylight time and Standard time?
> What if you travel out of state, or live in a state that doesn't change
> back to Standard time?  How would it handle leap years? :)
> Heheh, I think all the panic about Y2K is really funny, there really ARE
> people that think their car won't start come Y2K.  My girlfriend brought
> home from her work a Y2K flyer published by the Red Cross that actually
> said the embedded systems in some cars may not be Y2K compliant!  HAH!
>
> --
> Shawn Lin
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