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Just bought a 2016 diesel, car drives amazing! We need to smog the car here in California and I found out the monitors weren't all ready. I have driven at least 125 miles and still they aren't set yet!
Does anyone know the drive cycle for the 3.0 v6 tdi?
I ran into that once with my 13 and had similar trouble. Ultimately I dropped if off at the dealer and they sorted it out. Not sure what they did as there weren't significant miles put on it when I picked it up.
I ran into that once with my 13 and had similar trouble. Ultimately I dropped if off at the dealer and they sorted it out. Not sure what they did as there weren't significant miles put on it when I picked it up.
PIWIS has a short test function to get things ready within seconds, often without even driving.
No, it's nothing physical. You just have a certain amount of driving to do, under certain parameters, before the OBD2 will let you connect to the car. It's there so that you don't pull the battery / reset codes and bring it in for a clean bill of health to cheat the on board diagnostics. I'm not sure many people know exactly what the parameters are.
I have my CD 2013 CD since new and did a 3000 mile trip to the Canadian border and back and had the "flashing glow plug" indicator and limp mode once till I turned off and restarted.
When I got home I cleared the two codes after recording them and probably shouldn't have as there was no check engine light.
I have never done it before and now I need to get two of the 3 remaining monitors to the ready state,
My question is if it is even possible for the average person of is it a dealership thing ? ( which makes no sense at all ). I have Bulletin #:1901 which was generated due to "There is difficulty setting the ready status" .
I have NMHC Catalyst, Boost Pressure and PM filter monitor still incomplete and to pass the Texas state inspection need to get two more to the complete state.
Catalyst monitor came ready yesterday, now I only have Boost and Diesel Particulate monitors not ready.
I only need to get one more ready and them will pass the re-test for the TX state inspection.
I have to believe that the dealer shop can force the ready states since they can't afford to do all this driving to get the monitors ready especially as the Service Bulletin # : 1901 says it may take 3 attempts at a given sequence.
Did what the service bulletin indicates several times, took 188 miles until I got to one monitor incomplete. ( which is a Pass in Texas ).
Next is Oil and Filter change , Fuel filter change and water check and front brakes at 80k miles.
At some point I will also bleed the brakes and do the power steering fluid.
I know not to clear any codes close to when the state inspection is due.
There is talk about Texas skipping the OBDII checks sometime next year ... that would be something.
Attached Service bulletin .pdf below
Last edited by aussie_bob; 08-19-2023 at 02:49 PM.
Reason: notes that I added an attachment.
For the record, it took about 2-3 weeks of countless on/off cycles and almost 1,000 miles of various driving for my DPF to show ready. It seems to be the one monitor that takes the longest to set.
08-13-2017, 12:58 AM
Diesel readiness monitors
