I actually did the flywheel adaptation procedure three different times just to be sure, even though it makes no sense to me, as the car is an automatic and has no flywheel. It has a flex plate. I am in CA and I did check to see if my parents car would be exempt from readiness monitors. It is not ...

Dad just called. He took it to the smog shop down south and had it smogged. He said he's not sure if they somehow forced the monitors or if they had just coincidentally reset by the time he got there. Either way it's over and done with. Thanks everyone for your help. I wish I'd have been able to ...

I am at a loss. My parents drove 500 miles yesterday. Dad just went out to check the car. Plugged in the OBDII scanner and all five monitors are still not ready. I'd safely say that's near 1000 miles since putting the new battery in. My parents bought the car with about 40,000 miles on it. It now ...

It'd be nice if even one of the other monitors would run. I have been worried that the oxygen sensor(s) might be fouled from the amount of oil that ran through the exhaust when the turbo seal blew. The guy my dad takes the car to normally specializes in Volvo and seems to think that with a can of ...

Scholz wrote:Keeping your gas tank around 1/2 full?

Yup. Had it between 25% and 75% full. Never more than 12 gallons and never less than 6.

erikv11 wrote:
You don't have the defrost on, do you? That will turn on the AC.

I really don't think so... The fan switch is set to 0, the AC switch is set to off... I'll go double check. Yeah, defrost definitely not on.

Yeah I have not had the AC on at all. I have no clue as to what I could be doing wrong. I have driven it all over the place just normally, as well as the prescribed cycle, a whole bunch since putting the new battery in and my OBDII scanner shows 5 not ready monitors still. Mom and Dad will be ...

I give up. I just got back from doing the above referenced cycle yet again, and then getting out on the freeway for several runs. Unfortunately there are no stretches of freeway near me that I can get out over 55-60 mph for longer than 12-15 minutes at a time before hitting a stop light in any ...

I've driven around town a bunch, and gotten out on the free way quite a bit since my last post, and done the drive cycle twice more, and the OBDII scanner is still telling me I have five of eight monitors not ready. I'm going to give it a shot doing the cycle at least one more time, twice if I have ...

Well, the car was driven about 200 miles round trip yesterday 'like a normal person' and this morning I ran through the above referenced drive cycle which was a total pain. I took the car to the smog check station and they said that none of the monitors had been reset. He said that the above driving ...