clear codes

[SyntheticShield]

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.

 

[Toasty]

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'd venture to guess that the codes you describe that take multiple failed tests to activate are the same ones stored in NVM, requiring either passed tests or a clear SES light command. the immediate codes may not go into NVM, since there isnt any number of tests to fail before the light is triggered....

so pretty much, no mater what i would have tried with unhooking the battery, etc... it would have been fuitless..