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DTC Status Bit Definitions

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Refer to the following status bit descriptions:

Bit 7

Bit 6

Bit 5

Bit 4

Bit 3

Bit 2

Bit 1

Bit 0

For DTCs that illuminate the malfunction indicator lamp (MIL), a confirmed DTC means the PCM has stored a DTC and has illuminated the MIL. If the fault has corrected itself, the MIL may no longer be illuminated but the DTC still shows a confirmed status for 40 warm up cycles at which time the DTC is erased.

For DTCs that do not illuminate the MIL, a confirmed DTC means the PCM has stored a DTC. If the fault has corrected itself, the DTC still shows a confirmed status for 40 warm up cycles at which time the DTC is erased.

To determine if a test has completed and passed, for example, after a repair, information can be combined from two bits as follows:

If bit 6 is 0 (the DTC test completed this monitoring cycle), and bit 1 is 0 (the DTC test has not failed on the current monitoring cycle), then the DTC has been evaluated at least once this drive cycle and was a pass.

If bit 6 is 0 (the DTC test completed this monitoring cycle) and bit 0 is 0 (the DTC test is not failed at the time of request), then the most recent test result for that DTC was a pass.

The status byte bits can be decoded as a two digit hexadecimal number, and can be displayed as the last two digits of the DTC, for example for DTC P0110:1C-AF, AF represents the status byte info.

STATUS BYTE

Status Byte
A equals 1010 F equals 1111
Bit 7 equals 1 Bit 6 equals 0 Bit 5 equals 1 Bit 4 equals 0 Bit 3 equals 1 Bit 2 equals 1 Bit 1 equals 1 Bit 0 equals 1